a. (and sb.) [f. the name of the poet Chaucer + -IAN. Cf. Spenserian.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Chaucer or his writings.
1660. M. Parker, Hist. Arthur, sig. C. In an old Chaucerian manuscript.
1838. Emerson, Addr. Lit. Ethics, Wks. (Bohn), II. 211. Homeric … or Chaucerian pictures.
1850. Whipple, Ess. & Rev., II. 364. His imagination has a Chaucerian certainty in representing a natural object in its exact form.
B. sb. A student or admirer of Chaucer.
1868. Furnivall, Temp. Pref. Canterb. Tales, 89. A vote of thanks to Mr. Skeat from all Chaucerians is hereby recorded.
1883. N. & Q., 17 Nov., 398/2. William Thynne, known to us as a Chaucerian.
