sb. (a.) Camb. Univ. [f. JOHN + -IAN.] A member or student of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

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1655.  Fuller, Hist. Camb. (1840), 143. The Johnians, having intelligence by their emissaries, that the property of the person was altered.

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1712.  Henley, Spect., No. 396, ¶ 2. The Monopoly of Puns in this University has been an immemorial Privilege of the Johnians.

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1829.  Praed, Vicar, ad fin., The doctrine of a gentle Johnian … Whose phrase is very Ciceronian.

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1885.  Athenæum, 7 Feb., 179/1. He … is nothing if not a Cambridge man and a Johnian.

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  B.  adj. Of or belonging to St. John’s College, Cambridge.

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1785.  Grose, Dict. Vulg. T., s.v. Hog, Jonian hogs; an appellation given to the members of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

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1886.  W. E. Heitland, in Pall Mall Gaz., 19 June, 4/2.

        Farewell. By all the benefactors’ merits,
    who bade us be, and raised our Johnian towers;
by all the joys and griefs mankind inherits,
    that ever stirred this little world of ours.

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