a. and sb. [f. Basque Euskara, Eskuara, Uskara, the Basque language.] Basque; used by some ethnologists to designate that pre-Aryan element in the population of Europe, which they suppose to be typically represented by the Basques.
1864. I. Taylor, Words & Places (1873), 113. The black-haired, short-statured race which is found … in parts of Wales is undoubtedly of Ugrian or Euskarian, not of Celtic blood.
1870. Huxley, in Contemp. Rev., XIV. 519. The people of Spain and of Aquitaine at the present day must be largely ‘Euskarian’ by descent.
1882. Cornh. Mag., Dec., 733. The Portland of the earliest Celtic or Euskarian settlers.
1883. G. Allen, Colin Clout’s Calendar, xxxix. The Euskarians are separated in our island from the Anglo-Saxons and Danes by all the long interval of British and Roman times.
