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squirearchal, a.|skwaɪəˈrɑːkəl|
Also squirarchal.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of or belonging to, characteristic of, the squirearchy or a squirearch.
Clark (1855) gives squirarchial, and Worcester (1860, citing Clark) squirarcheal.
α1833J. S. Mill in Jurist IV. 15 Some stupid younger son of a squirearchal house. 1838Lytton Alice iv. x, We were all a squirearchal, farming, George the Third kind of people! 1864Reader 8 Oct. 458/2 Deep, indeed, is the satire on the squirearchal administration of justice. 1867Fitzgerald 75 Brooke St. II. 1 Sir John had been carried to his resting-place with all the pomp of squirearchal show.
β1830Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 146 A certain fashionable, knowing, half-squirarchal air. 1889M. B. Betham-Edwards A. Young p. xxx, Nothing can be more squirarchal than the well-wooded park. 1897H. S. Cowper Register Bk. Hawkshead p. lxxvi, Many representatives of the squirarchal families. |