Oxoniann.adj.

c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 676 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 96 Then he asked me and I were cantibrygion. I sayd no, I was an oxonian.

1697 T. Dilke City Lady iv. 33 What do'st think, Lucinda, can become of the young Oxonian, that doughty Lover of yours?

1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair ii. i. 16 I'm priviledg'd to be very impertinent, being an Oxonian.

1774 G. Colman Man of Business i. 13 The company at a masquerade should be almost as various as the characters they represent.—Countesses and sempstresses, lords, aldermen, blacklegs, and Oxonians.

1832 N. Amer. Rev. July 40 In answering a letter of Anthony Wood, who inquired whether he was an Oxonian, he replied with much simplicity and dignity, ‘As to myself, my faults are no disgrace to any university, for I was of none.’

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 512 Oxonians and Cantabs twitted the Scotch with knowing no Greek and little Latin.

1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry xi. 157 He was an Oxonian, and it was almost the first time that Elmer had heard an Englishman read.

1989 Oxf. Today 1 ii. 1 The magazine is offered as a means by which Oxonians can be kept in touch with what is going on here.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lviii. 522 Then the sleepless Boots went..gathering up..the Bluchers, Wellingtons, Oxonians, which stood outside.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 42/2 I had a pair of very good Oxonians that had been new welted.

1969 J. Fowles French Lieutenant's Woman xxvi. 204 A kind of magical samovar, whose tap was administered by Mary, dispensed an endless flow of gloves, scarves, socks, hats, gaiters, Oxonians (a kind of shoe then in vogue) and collars.

?2000 Shipton & Heneage Finest Footwear Catal. 4 A sturdy development of a gentleman's ‘pump’ and at first called the Oxonian, the Oxford has developed into the epitome of the gentleman's shoe.

1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. B3^v One branch amongst the rest; he left behinde, To spread the glory of th'Oxonian lyne.

1640 W. Vaughan Church Militant 166 Took up Good Alfreds Taske, to build more Roomes In the Oxonian Towne, upon whose Tombes Faire Violets and Roses sithence grew, Because they living strove Arts to renew.

1670 Philos. Trans. 1669 (Royal Soc.) 4 Ep. Ded. You added Life to the Oxonian Sparkles, I mean that Meeting, which may be called the Embryo or First Conception of the Royal Society.

1716 Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 175 Th' Oxonian doctors farther went.

a1763 J. Byrom Poems (1894–5) I. i. 208 Cantábs, they say, Oxonian bards outshine.

1810 Edinb. Rev. 16 172 We call them [according as, classified, classification] Oxonian barbarisms; because we know no other title descriptive of them.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 43/1 I've been selling Oxonian button-overs (‘Oxonian’ shoes, which cover the instep, and are closed by being buttoned instead of being stringed through four or five holes).

1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xiv. 290 I'd like to do something calm and cheerful and thoroughly Oxonian.

1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) ii. iii. 154 Two Oxonian friends of Mark's were the only witnesses.

1885 Athenæum 26 Sept. 400/1 He was..as little Oxonianized at the core..as a true son of Oxford could well be.