a. and sb. [f. Cantabrigia, Latin form of the name Cambridge + -AN.] Of or belonging to Cambridge; a member of the University of Cambridge.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 14–5. The Oxonians and Cantabrigians … are the happiest Academians on Earth.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 78, ¶ 5. Some hardy Cantabrigian Author.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, ‘Times,’ Wks. (Bohn), II. 120. Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader, assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular ‘Times.’
Hence, nonce-wds., as Cantabrigicity, Cantabrize v.
1863. A. De Morgan, in N. & Q., Ser. III. IV. 170/2. There is a general Cantabrigicity about it [Gunning’s Rem. Camb.].
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. vii. § 47. Know also that this university [Dublin] did so Cantabrize, that she imitated her in the successive choice of her Chancellours.
1885. Academy, 10 Jan., 19/2. Readers … might be excused for considering that Mr. Mullinger ‘cantabrizes.’
