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Caroˈlinian, a.
[f. med.L. Carolīnus of Charles; and its derivative Carolina.]
a. Belonging to Charles the Great.
b. Belonging to one or both of the Carolinas in U.S. Also n.
1705Penn Let. 9 Dec. in Penn-Logan Corr. (1872) II. 105 The Carolinian Lords. 1707J. Archdale New Descr. Carolina 15 By the Encouragements of several Carolinians than in England my Going was concluded on. 1818Mass. Agric. Repository & Jrnl. V. 60 Populus Angulata—Carolinian Poplar, name given to it in Europe, because first brought from Carolina. 1847Secret Soc. Mid. Ages 321 The Fehm-Gerichte..named..Carolinian Tribunals, as having been (as was believed) instituted by Charles the Great. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 226 Sharp and cold to a Carolinian. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. IV. xlvii. 228 It became the pride of native Carolinians not to accept a seat in [the king's council].
c. = Caroline a. 1 b. Also as n., a poet of the time of Charles I or II.
1949M. Bewley in Scrutiny Mar. 16 The tone of the colloquialism is Carolinian. Ibid. 19 The Carolinians exploit the fashion for the grace and elegance of conceit it allows them. |