suburbican, a.
(səˈbɜːbɪkən)
[ad. L. type *suburbicānus, f. suburbium suburb, after suburbicārius.]
= suburbicarian.
| 1659 Gauden Tears Ch. i. i. 27 One Ecclesiasticall polity [which]..extended, not onely to the walls of that city, but to the suburbican distributions. 1681 R. L'Estrange Apol. for Protest. iii. i. 51 The Suburbican Places of about an hundred Italian Miles from Rome. 1687 W. Johnston Assur. Abby Lands 16 The Suburbican Diocess of Rome. 1782 Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. xi. 289 The popes..had no..authority beyond the suburbican provinces. 1884 Times 1 Feb. 6 Two of the six Suburbican Sees being vacant at the same time. 1894 Tablet 4 Aug. 174 St. Bonaventure..was compelled to accept the Suburbican See of Albano. |