a. Of or belonging to the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, or his period (A.D. 306–337).
1620. J. King, Serm. Paules Crosse, 53. Great Constantine, the Noah and father of the new Christian world, after that floud of bloudy persecution, in founding the Lateran (then the Constantinian) Church, bare 12 baskets of earth vpon his owne shoulders.
1641. Milton, Animadv. (1851), 215. As well the gold of those Apostolick Successors that you boast of, as your Constantinian Silver.
1861. Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., 152. The state of society existing in Constantinian, but not in Carlovingian Rome.
1865. Ecclesiologist, Feb., 2. The columns of the interior octagon are of Constantinian date.
