Also spelt (after Polish) czarowitz, -witch, etc. [a. Russ. царевичъ, son of a tsar; in Pol. carowicz, F. tsarowitz, Ger. zarewitsch, etc. See CZAR.] A son of a tsar. (No longer an official title in Russia, having been superseded, since the time of Paul I., by that of великій князь ‘Grand Duke,’ lit. ‘great prince.’ The eldest son or hereditary prince has the differentiated title Cesare·vitch, -witch, Russian цесаревичъ, formed on цесарь, Cæsar, emperor.)
1710. Lond. Gaz., No. 4688/1. The Czarowitz, his Czarish Majesty’s Son, is expected here this Evening. Ibid. (1712), No. 4985/2. The Czarowitz … setting forwards to meet the King.
1878. G. B. McClellan, in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 151. The main army of the Cesarovitch.
