1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Period Victorian Period, an Interval of 532 Julian Years, which elaps'd, the new and full Moons, return on the same Day of the Julian Year.

1905 J. B. Bury Life St. Patrick App. 372 The Celtic Church in Britain and Ireland never adopted the Victorian cycle.

1839 Athenæum 2 Nov. 825/1 Perhaps the Annean authors, though inferior to the Elizabethans, are, on a general summation of merits, no less superior to the latter-Georgian and Victorian.

1850 E. P. Hood Age & its Architects ii. 71 The Victorian Commonwealth is the most wonderful picture on the face of the earth.

1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (ed. 13) i. 6 The significant likeness between the Alexandrian and Victorian eras.

1880 C. H. Pearson in Victorian Rev. (Melbourne) Feb. 544 The changes..were more radical than any programme of Victorian Liberalism suggests.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 591 An old-fashioned petticoat such as an early Victorian-age lady would have worn.

1907 F. F. Montrésor Burning Torch 426 The furniture..was adorned in a heavy Early Victorian style.

1934 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1950 G. B. Shaw Farfetched Fables 72 He was helping the movement against Victorian prudery in a very practical way as a nudist.

1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate vi. 157 In an emergency, one can't be Victorian about things, you know.

1977 P. G. Winslow Witch Hill Murder ii. xvi. 217 He was becoming rather heavily paternal to Linda. A Victorian parent.

1977 Time Out 17 June 5/2 Elsewhere in the files is an even worse example of what workers described as ‘Victorian industrial relations’.

1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 219 We can scarcely avoid calling him [Browning] the strongest, truest poet of the Victorians.

1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 61 He [sc. Tennyson], alone of the Victorians, has definitely entered the immortal group of our English poets.

1910 H. G. Wells New Machiavelli (1911) i. iii. 59 A new church in the Victorian Gothic.

1934 T. E. Tallmadge Story Eng. Archit. (1935) viii. 256 This structure [sc. the Albert Memorial] typifies to the last degree the Victorian Gothic style.

1961 Times 18 May 16/6 This small jewel of Victorian-Gothic architecture.

1980 ‘L. Black’ Eve of Wedding ii. 14 A huge red-brick mansion on three floors, heavy Victorian Gothic, a massive door in the centre of the front façade, leaded windows.

1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 97 The public buildings are mostly in Victorian-Italianate style, pillared and porticoed; painted white, or in Edinburgh-rock colours.

1982 S. Radley Talent for Destruction vi. 40 The Victorian Italianate tower of the town hall.

1970 Guardian 1 Oct. 11/8 Gillian Avery is an eminent Victorianist. She has written..neo-Victorian children's books.., she has edited a series of Victorian revivals.

1974 Times 22 Apr. 14/3 I amused myself by guessing which fellow-passengers were members of the Victorian Society. The man opposite..did not quite fit my vision of a Victorianist.

1982 UCT Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) Oct. 68 Writing as a Classicist and Victorianist, Jenkyns shows the enormous extent to which Hellenism influenced the generations of Victorians between about 1832 and the First World War.

1905 Speaker 8 Apr. 32/2 They Victorianise his [Bunyan's] spelling and parade his Calvinism on shiny paper.

1940 Burlington Mag. Apr. 127/2 The church had been so thoroughly ‘Victorianised’ that the discovery was all the more unexpected.

1979 Guardian 3 Sept. 2/5 The building is unusually well preserved because it was never Victorianised or modernised.

1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure ii. 27 The gatehouse of Butley..owes its renaissance from a Victorianized ruin to a lovely house, full of medieval grace, to Dr Montague Rendall.

1976 I. Murdoch Henry & Cato i. 47 The tall Victorianized sash windows, which also served as doors, reached down to the ground.

1857–65 (title) The Victorian Hansard; containing the debates..of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Colony of Victoria.

1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 787/1 The Victorian samples [of wheat] at the last Great Exhibition ranked amongst the very best.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 449 Eucalyptus globulus... [Called] ‘Tasmanian’ or ‘Victorian Blue Gum’ from the colour of its foliage.

1862 Temple Bar Sept. 286 The Victorians went pluckily in for their second innings.

1883 R. E. N. Twopeny Town Life in Austral. 41 The Victorians have a much greater love of show than any of their fellow-Australians.

1901 A. W. Jose Australasia x. 152 They are men of Melbourne, Brisbane, or Adelaide rather than Victorians or Queenslanders.

1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger v. 47 All in the carriage were staunch Victorians, and his scathing references to the climate of Sydney were greeted with approval.

1973 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 28/2 It's 41 years since Phar Lap died, but he lives on with a new generation of Victorians.