Gulielmian

comparative more Gulielmian · superlative most Gulielmian

1. rareOf or relating to a person named William, chiefly a ruler.

   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

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   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 Greatest Busines of Christendom Now in Agitation. […], London: […] F[rancis] L[each] for Charles Webb, […], →OCLC, page 71

   As for externals, it may be at once admitted that Messrs. [John Alfred] Gotch and [Hermann] Knackfuss, the architects, have resolutely refused to retain any of the features of the old building. The new palace is entirely in the neo-Gulielmian style, and is built from end to end of collo-concrete blocks of condensed pâté de foie gras faced with Parian marble.

   1911 March 22, “Our New Patricians. Palaces While You Wait.”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CXL, London: […] The Whitefriars Press. Bradbury, Agnew & Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 206, column 3

   1. rareUnited KingdomOf, 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).

      Upon his return from Mount William, Mitchell named the ranges in honour of King William IV (Gulielmi IV Regis), and dubbed them the Gulielmian Mountains.

      2020, Benjamin Wilkie, “Thomas Mitchell and Australia Felix”, in Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians, Clayton South, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Strangers in a foreign land), page 43

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      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 Court Journal on the Saturday,—and the Post and Herald on the following Monday,—the Constitutionnel on the Friday ensuing,—the Allgemeine Zeitung within ten days,—the Ispahan Courier in three weeks,—and the New York Courant in five;—the New Monthly will chew the end of the anecdote in its lion’s mouth;—the old Gentleman’s Magazine bolt it without a single wry face;—the Annual Register immortalize the record;—and forty years hence, the Georgian, or Gulielmian Era, furbish it up again for the admiration of our grand children.

      1832 November 24, “Gossip”, in Weston Hatfield, editor, Huntingdon, Bedford, & Peterborough Gazette, and Cambridge and Hertford Independent Press, volume XXII, number 1,058, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Weston Hatfield, […], →OCLC, page [4], column 5

      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: Fred[erick] Pitman, […]; Bath, Somerset: Isaac Pitman, […], →OCLC, page 6

      He [Edward Colborne Baber] adds: “Georgian” (but read Gulielmian—there are no Georgian rupees with effigy) “and Victorian rupees are distinguished as po-tu and mo-tu, meaning male-head and female-head.[…]”

      1882 August 19, H[enry] Yule, “The Silver Coinage of Tibet. By A[lbert] Terrien de La Couperie. (Trübner.)”, in The Academy. […], volume XXII, number 537, London: […] Yates Alexander and Shepheard, […], →OCLC, page 141, column 2

      Of the lesser Gulielmian architects, only David Mackenzie (Monifieth Manse, Tay Square Church, 1833, Inchture Church, 1834, and feu-plan of Chapelshade) and James Brewster (Ward Chapel, 1833, Church at Forfar, 1835, Webster’s Seminary, Kirriemuir, and Dorward House, Montrose, 1838) had real promise, never fully realised from want of opportunity in the bleak 1840’s.

      1955, David M. Walker, Architects and Architecture in Dundee, 1770-1914 (Abertay Historical Society publication; 3), Dundee: Abertay Historical Society, published 1964, →OCLC, pages 12–13

      I cannot always find suitable nominal adjectives for proper names: I know Caroline, Edwardian, Elizabethan, Georgian, Henrician, Jacobean, Marian, Ricardian, and Victorian but I don't know the proper adjective for "William" which I suppose will, before very long, again become relevant. ("Gulielmian" sounds like someone choking to death, perhaps on a very long and eccentric word.)

      [2007 November 22, David, “Will Prince Charles Be George VII -- If He Succeeds To The Throne?”, in soc.genealogy.medieval (Usenet), archived from the original on 16 Feb 2026