1769 Wanton Widow 196 In the Curchillian strain I intend to give them [sc. the readers] a description, differing only from the stile of that master in its being prosaic, instead of poetical.

1799 S. A. Bardsley More Kotzebue! (title page) The origin of my own Pizarro, a farce. Minor-rosciad, or Churchillian epistle, from Dick to Jack.

1883 Glasgow Herald 19 Dec. The Churchillian emancipation will be brought about.

1897 Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 166 The loyalty to the Churchillian tradition exemplified by Sir John Gorst when he first introduced his measure to the House.

1916 G. W. E. Russell Portraits of Seventies xi. 196 Each time that Churchill excited the leader of the House into indignant activity, a large feather was added to the Churchillian cap.

1983 W. H. Greenleaf Brit. Polit. Trad. (2003) vi. 223 Propaganda in the style of Churchillian Tory Democracy also appeared.

1886 Leicester Chron. & Leics. Mercury 3 July 6/1 They have such a Kilkenny-cat sort of disposition—Chamberlainites versus Hartingtonians and Churchillians versus Trevelyans.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 28 July 12/1 The chief and centre of the little group was undoubtedly..Lord Randolph Churchill... The most entertaining of the Churchillians was the witty Parliamentary barrister..the late R. O'Hara.

1912 Times 21 Mar. 12/7 That preface is, I suppose, the concentrated essence of Churchillian statesmanship.

1941 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. Feb. 27 It is not too much to say that his characteristic choice of words and phrases make a Churchillian broadcast a world event.

1976 Daily Tel. 20 July 3/2 The defence council drew in Churchillian tones on the Bible, the classics, Shakespeare, even Conan Doyle.

1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Mar. 25/2 She ended up seeing herself as a Churchillian leader fighting for Anglo-Saxon liberties against a dark, authoritarian Franco-German Continent.

2006 D. Winner Those Feet 86 The history-drenched lyrics weren't quite Churchillian, yet the song roused the English to unprecedented peacetime levels of patriotism.

1933 Times 7 Apr. 17/3 The Churchillians, represented in the Lords by Lord Salisbury and Lord Lloyd,..object on principle.

1951 San Antonio (Texas) Express 11 Nov. 27/7 While the honeymoon was on, even some of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Churchillians, said in effect: ‘Let them have a fair go!’

2001 A. Danchev & D. Todman in Ld. Alanbrooke War Diaries Introd. p. xxii Winston was wronged, the Churchillians impute, and his turncoat table-thumper was the culprit.