Guelphicadj.
/ˈɡwɛlfɪk/, U.S. /ˈɡwɛlfɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to the Guelph faction.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Italian politics > [adjective] > supporting Guelphs
Guelphian1641
Guelphish1660
Guelphic1851
1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 293 Ancona, and Rome, have shown not a little of the stubborn valour of the Guelphic burgesses of old.
1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 130 The family of Dante had been Guelphic.
1896 T. F. Tout Edward I (ed. 2) iv. 70 The barefaced partisanship of a series of fiercely Guelfic popes.
2. Of or pertaining to the Guelph family.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [adjective] > relating to the nobility > relating to noble person > of Guelph family
Guelphic1823
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Guelphic Order, a new military order of Hanover, instituted in 1815, entitled the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.
1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 315/1 The Schloss, or old castle, formerly a residence of the Guelphic ancestors of the Royal Family of England, is turned into a magazine.
1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady iii. 138 Then through the Guelphic line.
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