anti-ˈGallican, a. and n.
[f. prec. + -an.]
A. adj. Opposed to what is French.
| 1765 Smollett Trav. 56 Antigallican spirit enough to produce themselves in their own genuine English dress. 1817 Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1817) 101 Far greater earnestness and zeal both anti-jacobin and anti-gallican. 1842 Alison Hist. Eur. (1849) X. lxvi. §22. 135 The convulsion, as Wellington often observed, was anti-Gallican, not democratic. |
B. n. One opposed to the French.
| 1755 Gentl. Mag. XXV. 280 A..badge, given by the society of Antigallicans. 1826 Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 331 The Anti-Gallicans retained Jacob. 1854 Bancroft Hist. U.S. (1876) VI. xlvi. 302 Congress was divided between what the French envoy named ‘Gallicans’ and ‘anti-Gallicans.’ |