agricolousadj.

1779 tr. Liguier What has been Infl. of Commerce? i. 15 A state unembarrassed with foreign connections is of necessity agricolous, since it has no other resource for its maintenance.

1873 Eclectic Mag. Nov. 534/1 Pitching the quoit is confined to agricolous persons after their day's toil.

1893 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 81 288/2 A..penchant for the agricolous female, with coarse hands and red arms, who milks the cows, hoes the turnips, and assists in the hayfield.

1909 E. Speer Lincoln, Lee, Grant, & Other Biogr. Addr. 237 Many were the witticisms leveled at his agricolous appearance, and at the rustic vocabulary of his constituents.

1911 Collier's 17 June 44/2 It is evident that this feast [sc. Easter] was common to nearly all races long before the Christian era, and its agricolous origin is also obvious.

1915 J. W. Alexander Hist. Univ. Club N.Y. xxvii. 323 The Farmers Club..was organized in 1904. To be eligible to this agricolous order one must own and operate a hundred acres of land and keep a pig.

1825 S. Smith in Edinb. Rev. 42 36 Upon sacks of wool, and on benches forensic, sit grave men, and agricolous persons in the Commons, crying out, ‘Ancestors, ancestors! hodie non! Saxons, Danes, save us!’

1868 H. Robinson Romance of Atlantic xxi. 322 When the Agricolous senator..exclaims upon the hustings or from the treasury benches, ‘Nolumus leges Anglice mutari’, he ventilates a proposition which was thought very fine at the time, and has proved to be very foolish every since.

1880 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 413 It would require infantine trust in human nature to hope that the ordinary member, ‘agricolous’ or otherwise, should, without gentle stimulation, actually request that he may be elected for three years instead of for seven.