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Carlovingian, a. and n.|kɑːləʊˈvɪndʒɪən|
[ad. F. carlovingien, for carlingian, after Merovingian (f. Mérovée + -ing). Another form is Carolingian.]
A. adj.
a. Belonging to the second dynasty of French kings, founded by Carl or Karl the Great (Charlemagne).
1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xlix, The Carlovingian Sceptre was transmitted..in a lineal descent of four generations. 1879Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 45 The weakness of the Carlovingian monarchs.
b. = Caroline a. 1 a (spec. use).
1853H. N. Humphreys Orig. & Progress Art of Writing xi. 119 The more regular style of writing adopted about this time in France is termed, by paleographers, Caroline, or Carlovingian. 1906E. Johnston Writing & Illuminating (1977) i. i. 7 (heading) Caroline (or Carlovingian) writing. 1957A. Nesbitt Hist. & Technique Lettering i. iv. 27 Carlovingian writing was named after the dynasty of which Carl the Great is the chief representative. 1980M. Drogin Med. Calligraphy iv. 50 We know the script today as Carolingian Minuscule, Carlovingian Minuscule, Caroline Half-Uncial, [etc.].
B. n. = Carolingian n.
1845J. S. Mill in Edin. Rev. LXXXII. 415 Five centuries..extended from Clovis to the last of the Carlovingians. 1882C. T. Lewis Hist. Germany ii. v. 111 In the year 987, by the death of a fifth Louis (‘le Fainéant’, the lazy), the family of the Carlovingians ingloriously died out in France. |