a. [f. as prec. + -IAN.]
1. Archit. Belonging to, or characteristic of, the reigns of the first three Edwards.
1861. Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., ii. 65. A style … transcendent in the combination of grace and majesty—the style of Edwardian England.
1884. Athenæum, 16 Aug., 216/2. A very perfect and splendid specimen of the concentric type of shell keeps typical of the Edwardian period.
2. Belonging to the reign of Edward VI. In this sense also Edwardine.
1866. Littledale, Cath. Ritual Ch. Eng., 11. This enactment of the Edwardine ornament was renewed in 1662.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., I. 748. The Edwardian reformers compiled the First Book of Edward.
