a. and sb. rare. [f. L. longitūdin- (see LONGITUDE) + -arian as in latitudinarian.]
A. adj. Pertaining to longitude.
1853. De Quincey, Autobiog. Sk., Wks. I. 186. What was the centre of London for any purpose whatever—latitudinarian or longitudinarian—literary, social, or mercantile?
† B. sb. A student of longitude. Obs.
1754. Stow’s Surv. Lond., I. I. xxiv. 178/2. Aristotelians, Cartesians, Adepts, Astrologers and common Longitudinarians.
