squirearchal, a.
(skwaɪəˈrɑːkəl)
Also squirarchal.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of or belonging to, characteristic of, the squirearchy or a squirearch.
Clark (1855) gives squirarchial, and Worcester (1860, citing Clark) squirarcheal.
| α 1833 J. S. Mill in Jurist IV. 15 Some stupid younger son of a squirearchal house. 1838 Lytton Alice iv. x, We were all a squirearchal, farming, George the Third kind of people! 1864 Reader 8 Oct. 458/2 Deep, indeed, is the satire on the squirearchal administration of justice. 1867 Fitzgerald 75 Brooke St. II. 1 Sir John had been carried to his resting-place with all the pomp of squirearchal show. |
| β 1830 Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 146 A certain fashionable, knowing, half-squirarchal air. 1889 M. B. Betham-Edwards A. Young p. xxx, Nothing can be more squirarchal than the well-wooded park. 1897 H. S. Cowper Register Bk. Hawkshead p. lxxvi, Many representatives of the squirarchal families. |