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octavian Sc. Hist.|ɒkˈteɪvɪən|
[f. L. octāv-us eighth + -ian.]
One of the eight members of a finance committee appointed by James VI in 1595 to have control of the royal exchequer.
1596J. Carey Let. to Burghley 9 June (Bain's Calend. II. 135) Some of the Octaveyans of the Secret Council. ― Ibid. 26 Aug. (ibid.), I will henceforth send only such as I get from verie good men, as from some of the Kinges Octaveyans. 1596in Spotiswood Hist. Ch. Scotl. (1655) 422. c 1602 J. Melvill Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 330 The Kings haill effeares..was put in the hands of aught..thairfor named Octavians. c1634Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow) 165. 1649 Bp. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 5 The Multitude..would in all probability have..done Mischief, at last to those call'd Octavians, whom they blam'd for all. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. II. 224. 1870 Burton Hist. Scot. (1876) V. lx. 299 The battle of the octavians, with the zealots of the Church on one side and the ‘cubiculars’ of the Court on the other, lasted for eighteen months. |