Obs. Also -ilian. [A variant or doublet of CASTELLAN: cf. next; also med.L. ‘castellanus, castelli incola’ (Du Cange).] One living in or belonging to a castle; one of the garrison of a castle. Applied e.g. to those who held the Castle of St. Andrews in 1547, and frequent during the civil war of the 17th c.
1570–87. Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), II. 389. In which action also the adverse part forgot not to requite the castillians.
1828–41. Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), III. 51/2. The Castilians sent an envoy to Henry the Eighth … declaring that their only object was to gain time to revictual the castle.
1649. Jrnl. Siege of Pontefract Cast., 106. We were upon treaty with the castillians.
c. 1665. Mrs. Hutchinson, Mem. (1838), 79/1. Now the name of cavalier was no more remembered, Castilian being the term of reproach with which they branded all the governor’s friends.
