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▪ I. Georgian, a.1 and n.1|ˈdʒɔːdʒɪən|
[f. George + -ian.]
A. adj.
1. a. Belonging to the time of the Georges, as Kings of Britain. spec. Of or resembling the style of architecture, esp. domestic architecture, characteristic of the reigns of the first four Georges (1714–1830). Georgian group, the name of a society formed to advocate the preservation of examples of this style.
1855in Ogilvie, Suppl. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 119 We do not require..evidence to prove the low morals of a large mass of the clergy in the Georgian or first præ-Georgian days. 1875Geo. Eliot Let. 14 Aug. (1955) VI. 165 Our house here is rather a fine old red brick Georgian place. 1879J. Grant in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 291/1 Discoveries which distinguished him as one of the greatest astronomers of the Georgian era. 1883Harper's Mag. July 166/2 There is a good old Georgian church at Hornsey. 1896B. & B. F. Fletcher Hist. Archit. 280 At this time, there grew up a vernacular style, most of the less important houses being erected in the useful and modest Queen Anne and Georgian type of square house. 1940N. Mitford Pigeon Pie vi. 99 They were going to pull it down and build a block of flats. (The Georgian Group, wrapped in dreams of Federal Union, stirred in its sleep on hearing this.) 1945J. Summerson Georgian London v. 53 With the general adoption of parapet-roofs and sash-windows with recessed frames, the characteristic Georgian town house had arrived. 1961W. Gérin B. Brontë xvi. 236 A double-fronted Georgian house in the centre of the village. 1967Observer 9 July 32/3 She wants to buy a house in Regent's Park, St. John's Wood or Chelsea—modern, but in Georgian style.
b. Belonging to or characteristic of the reign of George V (1910–36) or VI (1936–52). In literary criticism applied spec. to writers or writing of the first years of George V's reign, and esp. to contributors to five anthologies of ‘Georgian Poetry’ published between 1912 and 1922.
1910P. Gibbs in Lady's Realm July 272 Under the new regime of Georgian England. 1912E. H. Marsh (title) Georgian Poetry 1911–1912. 1921R. Lynd in Anthol. Mod. Verse Introd. p. xxx, The Georgian poets, like the Lake poets, are re-establishing the claim of familiar experiences to poetical treatment in familiar language. 1924V. Woolf Mr. Bennett & Mrs. Brown 19 The Georgian writer had to begin by throwing away the method that was in use at the moment. 1927[see Edwardian a. 3]. 1963J. I. M. Stewart Eight Mod. Writers i. 14 The Georgian poets..included a writer of unique vision in Walter de la Mare, a genius in D. H. Lawrence, and a dark horse in Robert Graves.
†2. Georgian planet = Georgium sidus. Obs.
1787Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 125 An Account of the Discovery of Two Satellites revolving round the Georgian Planet. By William Herschel, LL.D., F.R.S. 1812Woodhouse Astron. xii. 101 The same method therefore will not apply to bodies more distant from us than the sun; neither to Jupiter, nor Saturn, nor the Georgian Planet.
3. Georgian green (see quot. 1949).
1934Historical Colours (Thos. Parsons & Sons) 39 It is likely that William and Mary as well as Georgian greens were derived..from the vert pomme or apple green of our French neighbours..as intercourse in those times (circa 1757) was greater than generally credited. 1942J. Cary To be a Pilgrim lxxvi. 171 She showed me the paint. ‘Is this the colour, uncle. Georgian green they called it.’ 1949British Colour Council Dict. Colours Int. Decoration III. 12 Georgian green, one of the most typical of the slightly yellowish greens found in wall decoration, hangings and woven upholstery fabrics of many kinds during the period covered by the first four Georges, Kings of England, 1714–1830.
B. n. One belonging to the time of the Georges, kings of England; spec. a writer of the early part of the reign of George V (see A. 1 b above).
1901Sketch 28 Aug. 249/2 The arid stucco of the unimaginative Georgians and Early Victorians. 1913R. Brooke Let. 24 July (1968) 493 Send photographs of a Georgian or two..to Canadian & American papers, when the book [sc. Georgian Poetry] goes for review. 1916Q. Rev. Oct. 386 From such a catastrophe, the humour, commonsense, and the artistic judgment of the best of the new ‘Georgians’ will assuredly save their generation. 1924V. Woolf Mr. Bennett & Mrs. Brown 4 Mr. Forster, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Strachey, Mr. Joyce, and Mr. Eliot I will call the Georgians. 1943English Studies XXV. 1 After the War the Georgians still commanded a large public.
▪ II. Georgian, a.2 and n.2|ˈdʒɔːdʒɪən|
[f. Georgi-a + -an.]
A. adj.
1. Belonging to Georgia, a district in the Caucasus, its inhabitants, or their language.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 79 These beasts are plentiful in Ethiopia, India, and the Georgian region, which was once called Media. a1791Wesley Serm. Wks. 1811 IX. 234 Bodies of Georgian, Circassian, Mengrelian Christians. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 172 The personal beauty for which the modern Persians are noted is inherited from Circassian and Georgian concubines. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 220 Some desultory incursions..on the Georgian frontier..had terminated in the discomfiture of the Persians.
2. Belonging to the State of Georgia, one of the United States of America.
1762Wesley Jrnl. 27 May (1827) III. 91 We had another Georgian day. 1775Romans Hist. Florida 174 Cattle can hardly yield profit where the Carolinian or Georgian method of killing at two, three, and four years old obtains. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 113 The second experiment was made on a Georgian cotton, which sticks strongly to the seeds.
B. n.
1. a. A native of Georgia in Asia. b. The language of that country.
c1400Mandeville (1839) x. 121 There ben othere, that men clepen Georgyenes, that seynt George converted. 1625–6Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1269 There is also a warlike people dreadfull to the Saracens, called Georgians, of Saint George..whom they worship. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 54 The Georgians inhabite the Countrie that was antiently named Iberia. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 471 The Georgians in general are by some travellers said to be the handsomest people in the world. 1838Penny Cycl. XI. 173/1 The Georgian is full of Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and other foreign words.
2. An inhabitant of Georgia in America.
1741P. Tailfer, etc. Narr. Georgia 72 In and about the Town of Charles-Town alone, this Autumn, above Fifty Georgians died in Misery and Want. 1850Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 13 These Georgians seemed..to be as insensible to the frost as some Englishmen the first winter after their return from India. 1868Spectator 14 Jan. 37 It afforded strong support to those Georgians and Alabamians who were meditating on the means of rejoining the Union. |