millionaryn.adj.

1786 T. Jefferson Observ. on Démeunier's Manuscript 22 June in Papers (1954) X. 52 The poorest labourer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest Millionary.

1835 C. G. F. Gore Mammon II. 81 Fortunately for the new millionary, his wife, like the spouse of John Gilpin, possessed a frugal mind.

1873 M. Collins Squire Silchester II. vi. 70 Could not some English millionary give a few hundred thousands to endow such an institution?

1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 88/2 Among the former pastors were..Freeman, the millionary among the Indians.

1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. i. 52 A clever, noble book about..contemporary drama, or millionaries found murdered in their libraries.]

1816 T. Jefferson Let. 20 June in Writings (1903) XV. 29 All this to feed the avidity of a few millionary merchants.

1858 De Bow's Rev. July 40 The value of them is subject to numerous and violent fluctuations, effected mostly at the will of foreign millionary operators.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 230 He had a dread that these millionary people..might take undue interest in his companion.

a1826 J. Pinkerton in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1864) (at cited word) The millionary chronology of the Pundits.

1854 T. H. Benton Thirty Years' View I. 232/1 The halls of Congress have come to be considered the proper place to lay the foundations, or to repair the dilapidations of millionary fortunes.

1878 Catholic World Sept. 727/1 All these millionary equations of fives must have been produced by a cause, or causes.

1916 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 10 699 Those guilds of war parasites, eager to exploit for their own profit..the millionary armies' demands for enormous and quick deliveries.