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anti-ˈGallican, a. and n.
[f. prec. + -an.]
A. adj. Opposed to what is French.
1765Smollett Trav. 56 Antigallican spirit enough to produce themselves in their own genuine English dress. 1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1817) 101 Far greater earnestness and zeal both anti-jacobin and anti-gallican. 1842Alison Hist. Eur. (1849) X. lxvi. §22. 135 The convulsion, as Wellington often observed, was anti-Gallican, not democratic.
B. n. One opposed to the French.
1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 280 A..badge, given by the society of Antigallicans. 1826Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 331 The Anti-Gallicans retained Jacob. 1854Bancroft Hist. U.S. (1876) VI. xlvi. 302 Congress was divided between what the French envoy named ‘Gallicans’ and ‘anti-Gallicans.’ |