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gubernatorial, a. Chiefly U.S.|ˌgjuːbərnəˈtɔərɪal|
[f. L. gubernātor (see prec.), perh. through an assumed *gubernātōri-us: see -ial, -al1.]
Of or pertaining to a governor (esp. one holding this as an official title) or government.
1734N. Jersey Archives (1894) XI. 368 The Governor in his gubernatorial Capacity. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 113 Wilhelmus Kieft, who, in 1634, ascended the gubernatorial chair (to borrow a favourite though clumsy appellation of modern phraseologists), was of a lofty descent. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 43 A mass of gubernatorial machinery for British India. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. xxii. (1885) 214 The old gubernatorial residence. 1882St. James's Gaz. 15 Nov. 6 Leaving important dependencies of the crown to drift along for months together under some hastily improvised gubernatorial direction. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. xlix. 250 Even in colonial days there was a tendency to substitute popular for gubernatorial nomination.
b. Of or pertaining to ‘the governor’, i.e. one's father.
1825Disraeli in Scott's Fam. Lett. (1894) II. 423, I have had a view of the gubernatorial article, and I must say..it was never equalled. [Refers to an article written by his father.] 1880H. James Portr. Lady v, His mother, on the other hand, was paternal, and even, according to the slang of the day, gubernatorial. |