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Oliverian, n. and a.|ɒlɪˈvɪərɪən|
Also 7 -arian.
[f. proper name Oliver + -ian.]
A. n. A partisan or adherent of Oliver Cromwell; a Cromwellian.
1658Wood Life 30 Aug. (O.H.S.) I. 258 Dennis Bond, a great Olivarian..died on that day. 1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. II. xii. 28 A Scotch Brood of Presbyterians, Or pious English Oliverians. 1885J. Brown Bunyan 132 The very Oliverians were becoming Royalist in their sympathies.
B. adj. Cromwellian.
1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 15 (1754) 74 The principles of the revolution, and not of the Oliverian usurpation. |