Oliveriann.adj.
/ɒlɪˈvɪərɪən/, U.S. /ˌɑləˈvɪriən/ English History.
A. n.
A supporter or follower of Oliver Cromwell, who became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England in 1653; a Cromwellian.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > supporter of parliament, Cromwell, or commonwealth
roundhead1641
parliamentarian1642
parliamenteer1642
parliament man1642
Westminsterian1645
Oliverian1648
parliamentary1649
parliamenterc1650
commonwealth man1651
aproneer1659
Protectorian1659
Protectorist1659
1648 Mercurius Melancholicus 24 Apr.–1 May 208 They must either give their Children another Play-day, and play themselves the Babies with them or else for ever fall under the destruction..of the armed and thrice-Sainted Oliverians.
1658 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 258 Dennis Bond, a great Olivarian..died on that day.
1707 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. xii. 28 A Scotch Brood of Presbyterians, Or pious English Oliverians.
1788 Lady E. Butler Jrnl. 12 Apr. in E. M. Bell Hamwood Papers (1930) iv. 88 Sir Thomas M. being an Oliverian, more of the opposite party lodged the writings of their Estates and Mortgages with him.
1799 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. xix. 734/1 The site of the altar is hid by an Oliverian monument.
1817 Clavis Arganthiana 61 Our Grandfathers were Papists, Our Fathers Oliverians.
1885 J. Brown Bunyan 132 The very Oliverians were becoming Royalist in their sympathies.
1903 Amer. Hist. Rev. 9 42 ‘How have they’, wrote an angry Oliverian, ‘forced him (as Aaron) to make a Calfe like the Ægyptian Ox, an other House instead of a House of Peers?’
B. adj.
Of or relating to Oliver Cromwell or his period in power as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [adjective] > of or relating to protector of 1653-9 > specific
Oliverian1649
1649 Sad Sigh 7 Now now farewell ye Oliverian bilbowes, To th' back as true as well-strung steel-bowes.
1680 Revenge; or, Match in Newgate v. 58 'Tis an old Oliverian two-pence.
1694 J. Crowne Regulus Epil. sig. A2v The Oliverian Saints with Love made Leagues.
1700 E. Ward Dancing-School 14 Some in old Oliverian coats were clad.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 15 (1754) 74 The principles of the revolution, and not of the Oliverian usurpation.
1771 J. Macpherson Pennsylvania Sailors Lett. iii. 23 This new invented ceremony, in the late invented inquisition, planned and plotted (and tried upon me) by Oliverian priests, some say inquisitors.
1806 Epitome Gunton's Hist. Peterborough Cathedral 41 The painted windows demolished by the Oliverian rabble.
1818 I. D'Israeli Lit. Char. 53 He fell upon some worm-eaten volumes which had once been the careful collections of his great-grand father, an Oliverian justice.
1903 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 12 44 Major-General Winston (or Winslow) has with him a large body of troops, hardy veterans, inured to fatigue with a large proportion of the Oliverian principle.
1992 Hist. Jrnl. 35 547 Both sides in 1656, Oliverian and oppositional, appealed to the lessons of the western design.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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