rosariann.

1797 J. Nichols Illustr. Manners & Expences of Antient Times in Eng. ii. 24 As no Ludus or pageant belonged to this fraternity, neither does the acceptation of Pater Noster, as synonymous with Rosarians, a string of beads, at all apply to it.

1867 R. Palmer Life P. Howard 40 (note) The Confraternity of the Holy Rosary, called ‘Rosarians’.

1871–2 Rosarian 1 378 A Rosarian asks prayers for the conversion of her three brothers.

1945 K. S. Latourette Hist. Expansion Christianity (new ed.) VII. xii. 318 Roman Catholics undertook new enterprises. The Rosarians, a native community leading a strictly cloistered life, began a second house in the 1930's in the heart of a jungle [in Ceylon].

2007 Times (Trenton, New Jersey) (Nexis) 12 Nov. (Obituaries) Helen was a member of the Divine Mercy (Holy Cross) Rosarians, the Catholic War Veteran's Post 417 Ladies Auxiliary, the Trenton Polish-American Democratic Club and the Colonial Sportsman Club.

1862 Florist & Pomologist Aug. 116 Experience alone can make a man a rosarian.

1864 S. Hibberd Rose Bk. 12 To furnish the rosarian with an intelligible key to the catalogues [of roses].

1882 Garden 25 Feb. 132/3 I have no doubt many rosarians..have found swarms of the black ants on the top of Rose buds.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 136/4 Prune what is left according to your own notions or the rosarian's instructions. I find it beneficial to cut my own roses back rather severely.

1999 National Trust Mag. Autumn 42/1 This is ‘the Sissinghurst rose’. We found one single bush here, quite unknown to rosarians, a deep claret colour, and we propagated it.