Gulielmian

Adjective

Gulielmian (comparative more Gulielmian, superlative most Gulielmian)

1. (rare) Of or relating to a person named William, chiefly a ruler.
   • Now, concerning the Gulielmian or Bavarian line ther are but 4 living, wherof two are Churchmen, viz. the Archbiſhop of Colen [Maximilian Henry of Bavaria], and the Biſhop of Frizing [Albrecht Sigismund of Bavaria], which can leave no iſſue behind; […]1658, J[ames] H[owell], “The Sixth Section, Of Enlarging the Colledg of Electors from Seven to an Octumvirat, […]”, in A Discours of the Empire, and of the Election of a King of the Romans, the...
   • GOODWILL. GOODWILLIE. These singular names have no reference to the character, good or bad, of any of the vast Gulielmian tribe, but, according to [Robert Lindsay of] Pittscottie, a good-willer and a well-wisher are synonymous.
     Used jocularly.1860, Mark Antony Lower, Patronymica Britannica. A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom., London: John Russell Smith, […]; Lewes, Sussex: G[eorge] P[eter] Bacon, →OCLC, page 133
   1. (rare, United Kingdom) Of, from, or characteristic of the reign of King William IV (1830–1837) or a future King William V of the United Kingdom (currently William, Prince of Wales).
      • It has been computed, that by intrusting a well-concocted and tolerably interesting lie, in strictest confidence, to two fashionable Galens, in full practice, and four determined morning visitors or levee haunters, the story will reach 7,963 individuals in the course of four-and-twenty hours,—the...1832 November 24, “Gossip”, in Weston Hatfield, editor, Huntingdon, Bedford, & Peterborough Gazette, and Cambridge and Hertford Independent Press, volume XXII, number 1,058, Cambridge...
      • Such were my early but forgotten productions,—still-born innocents. The writers of the Gulielmian age, of whom so much had been asked, did, of course, just nothing at all for them.1872, R[obert] G[ordon] Latham, “Prefatory Remarks”, in A Defence of Phonetic Spelling; Drawn from a History of the English Alphabet and Orthography; with a Remedy for Their Defects, London...