1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 29 b Perseus the Palladian knight..when he had slayne..Medusa, he consecrated y^e same [shield] to the mighty Goddes Pallas.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vii. 289 Or as if Mars were in the field, Arm'd with the strong Palladian shield.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 21 Unlesse he carry..all his midnight watchings, and expence of Palladian oyl, to the hasty view of an unleasur'd licencer.

1679 J. Banks Destr. Troy v. i. 62 Divinely consecrate to your great Goddess Pallas, whom we most humbly now implore..It shall be call'd the great Palladian Horse.

1709 W. King Art of Love (new ed.) viii. 103 Olives on the Palladian Trees.

a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) II. xvi. 143 As to ancient Troy Was that Palladian image sent from heav'n.

1888 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 9 80 They borrow form and attribute from the chief deity of the place, becoming either Apolline or Dionysiac or Palladian as the case may be.

1893 G. Gissing Odd Women I. vi. 145 She threw forward her arms, as though with spear and buckler. Miss Barfoot was smiling at this Palladian attitude.

1960 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 64 397/1 Type B is a palladian figure invoked in aid of the dynasty.

1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 13 Conscious they act a true Palladian part, And if they starve, they starve by Rules of Art.

1736 A. Pope Bounce to Fop 9 My second (Child of Fortune!) waits At Burlington's Palladian Gates.

1792 E. Gibbon Let. 8 Nov. (1956) III. 287 To pass some hours in the palladian Chiswick.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 94/1 The thrust..directed against that arch-heresy of all, the Palladian style.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 250 Europe has never seen a worse style than the Palladian.

1924 A. Huxley Let. 29 Apr. (1969) 229 One of the sixteenth century Gonzaga created a..court, leaving two or three palaces, a Palladian theatre with fixed scene.

1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 33 Burlington assembled details from various Palladian sources..the semicircular windows, the side elevations, and certain features inside from Scamozzi's Villa Molin.

1990 Holiday Which? May 136/2 Castle Howard..is a vast palladian house with extensive grounds.

1906 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 26 52 This entablature, being what Palladians used to term..an ‘archotrave cornice’, might figure as a missing link, the friezeless Doric, corresponding to the friezeless Tuscan order.

1946 J. Summerson Georgian London x. 118 The Palladians had ruled that the only proper adornments for building, both inside and out, were the grammatical elements comprised in the five orders as described by Vitruvius and recodified by Palladio.

2002 Architectural Rec. (Nexis) Oct. 79 The Renaissance architects imitated Rome and the English Palladians imitated the Renaissance.

1896 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. i. 3/7 It does not matter whether this is among the limbs of a statue in a niche, or the pediment of a Palladian window.

1938 Amer. Home Jan. 32/1 (caption) Designed in classic Georgian style, this residence of Mrs. E. W. Goodaire has a perfect Palladian window.

1992 Down East Feb. 67/2 (advt.) The living room..features a 2-story Palladian window framing the lovely woodland view.