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▪ I. Polonian, a. and n.|pəʊˈləʊnɪən|
[f. Polonia + -an.]
A. adj. Of Poland; = Polish a. Obs. or arch.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xiii. 126 b, A long cappe after the Polonian or Georgian fashion. 1655Owen Vind. Evangelicæ Wks. 1853 XII. 18 This Captain-general of the Polonian forces. 1776Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad Introd. 55 He was a Polonian Jew by birth.
B. n.
1. A native of Poland, a Pole. arch.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 210 Which is the case of the Polonians and Venetians at this present. 1704J. Trapp Abra-Mulé i. i. 70 The rough insolence of stern Polonians. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. ii. 179 Scottish colonels that served..against the Tartar, and the Polonian.
†2. A (woman's) polonaise. Sc. Obs.
c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. IV. 216 Ladies,..their number quite countless—dressed in green pollonians, and grass-green bonnets on their heads. 1818― Brownie of B. II. 183 The bogles will..hae to pit on their pollonians o' the pale colour o' the fair day-light.
So † Poˈlonic, † Poˈlonish adjs. = polish; ˈPolonism, a Polish characteristic or peculiarity; Poloniˈzation, the process of making Polish; Polonize |ˈpəʊlənaɪz| v., to make Polish.
1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. Pref. 22 The Belgick, *Polonick, Argentine, Augustane, Saxonick,..Bohemick or Waldensian Confession.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 121 Reported by the *Polonish Ambassadour. 1649S. Clarke Lives Fathers, Luther (1654) 253 A certain Polonish Jew.
1901Speaker 9 Mar. 637/1 To discount..the *Polonisms of Chopin..and the Gallicisms of Berlioz.
1883Pall Mall G. 17 Oct. 4/1 Demanding..the *Polonisation of the Galician railways.
1886Contemp. Rev. Feb. 286 That their residence there tends to *Polonize the districts in which they live. 1902Speaker 6 Sept. 594/2 Instead of the Prussians Germanising the Poles, the Poles are Polonising the Germans.
▪ II. Polonian, a.2|pəˈləʊnɪən|
[f. the name Poloni-us (see below) + -an.]
Characteristic of or resembling Polonius, an elderly and sententious courtier in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
1956C. P. Snow Homecomings xxxv. 171 ‘No, Lewis, I want you to listen to them. Listening never did any of us any harm, and talking usually does,’ said Bevill, in one of his Polonian asides. 1968Listener 4 July 18/2 Your Polonian television critic, Mr Francis King.., feeling tetchily about the arras for Hamlet, is showing his age at last. 1971New Statesman 16 Apr. 532/3 Compared with the Polonian but still unfathomable Burghley, his short life of 33 years is an open book. |