a. [ad. L. Catilīna.] The name of a Roman who conspired against his country B.C. 63: sometimes taken as the type of a profligate conspirator. Hence Catilinarian, † Catilinary sb. and a., † Catilinism.
1592. G. Harvey, in Nashe, Strange News, Wks. 1883, II. 263.
1594. Bp. King, Jonas (1618), 190. The Poets expresse the vncompassionate style of these Catilinary dispositions.
1611. Cotgr., Catilinisme, Catilinisme, conspiracie.
1774. Hist. Europe, in Ann. Reg. (1775), 71/1. Catalines at home who ought to be dragged forth to public disgrace and punishment.
1798. G. Ellis, in Anti-Jacobin, 12 Feb., 65. The Catiline of modern times [Fox].
1875. Symonds, Renaiss. in Italy, I. vi. 319. The Catilinarian riots of Tiburzio.
