Norfolcian

Norfolcian

English

Adjective

Norfolcian (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the county of Norfolk in England.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, Manchester: Spenser Society, Volume 2, 1890, Twelfth Song, p. 223,

     And when in their revenge, the most insatiate Dane

     Unshipt them on our shores, under their puissant Swane:

     And swolne with hate and ire, their huge unweeldy force,

     Came clustring like the Greeks out of the Woodden-horse:

     And the Norfolcian Townes, the neer’st unto the East,

     With sacriledge and rape did terriblest infest:

     Those Danes yet from the shores we with such violence drave,

     That from our swords, their ships could them but hardly save.

   • 1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xxix,

     […] he treats with his usual learning on the funeral rites of the antient nations; exhibits their various treatment of the dead; and examines the substances found in his Norfolcian urns.

   • 1837, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Manning dated 25 December, 1815, in The Letters of Charles Lamb, London: Edward Moxon, Volume 2, p. 18,

     You have no turkeys; you would not desecrate the festival by offering up a withered Chinese bantam, instead of the savoury grand Norfolcian holocaust, that smokes all around my nostrils at the moment, from a thousand fire-sides.

Noun

Norfolcian (plural Norfolcians)

1. A native or resident of Norfolk.
   • 1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, Volume 2, London: Samuel Bagster, 1816, Book I, Chapter 21, p. 285,

     A great appearance of these rebellious Norfolcians were got together near Lyn: but the magistrates and people of that town did not side with them, but kept themselves loyal to the king.

   • 1801, Review of Erratics, The Monthly Review, Volume 35, August, 1801, p. 387,

     The most prominent characteristics of the ‘Norfolcians,’ the writer observes, are habitual cleanliness, and a strong peculiarity of dialect.

   • 1833, “Sporting Intelligence,” The Sporting Magazine, Volume 7 (Second Series), No. 42, October 1833, p. 495,

     In the Norfolcians’ second innings, when the two Pilches met together, it was a high treat to the lovers of batting—nothing could excel the beauty of their play.