a. [ad. F. carlovingien, for carlingian, after Merovingian (f. Mérovée + -ing). Another form is CAROLINGIAN.] Belonging to the second dynasty of French kings, founded by Carl or Karl the Great (Charlemagne).
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xlix. The Carlovingian Sceptre was transmitted … in a lineal descent of four generations.
1879. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 45. The weakness of the Carlovingian monarchs.
