Cantabrigian, a. and n.
(kæntəˈbrɪdʒɪən)
[f. Cantabrigia, Latin form of the name Cambridge + -an.]
1. Of or belonging to Cambridge; a member of the University of Cambridge.
| c 1540 [see Oxonian n. a]. 1616 J. Chamberlain Let. 27 Mar. (1939) I. 618 The King..had a play at Roiston acted by some of the younger sort of our Cantabrigians. c 1645 Howell Lett. (1650) I. 15 The Oxonians and Cantabrigians..are the happiest Academians on earth. 1711 Steele Spect. No. 78 ¶5 Some hardy Cantabrigian Author. 1856 Emerson Eng. Traits, ‘Times’ Wks. (Bohn) II. 120 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader, assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular ‘Times’. |
2. Belonging to Cambridge, Mass., or to Harvard University.
| 1887 Harper's Mag. Mar. 589/1 Mrs. Sainsbury was Boston-born, as well as Mrs. Pasmer, and was Cantabrigian by marriage. 1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 26 The New Haven men struggled to the Cantabrigian twenty-yard line. |
Hence, nonce-wds., as Cantabriˈgicity, ˈCantabrize v.
| 1863 De Morgan in N. & Q. Ser. iii. IV. 170 There is a general Cantabrigicity about it. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. vii. §47 Know also that this university [Dublin] did so Cantabrize, that she imitated her in the successive choice of her Chancellours. 1885 Academy 10 Jan. 19/2 Readers..might be excused for considering that Mr. Mullinger ‘cantabrizes’. |