a. Also squirarchal. [f. prec. + -AL.] Of or belonging to, characteristic of, the squirearchy or a squirearch.
Clark (1855), gives squirarchial, and Worcester (1860, citing Clark) squirarchecal.
α. 1838. Lytton, Alice, IV. x. We were all a squirearchal, farming, George the Third kind of people!
1864. Reader, 8 Oct., 458/2. Deep, indeed, is the satire on the squirearchal administration of justice.
1867. P. Fitzgerald, 75 Brooke St., II. 1. Sir John had been carried to his resting-place with all the pomp of squirearchal show.
β. 1830. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), II. 146. A certain fashionable, knowing, half-squirarchal air.
1889. Miss Betham-Edwards, A. Young (1892), p. xxx. Nothing can be more squirarchal than the well-wooded park, [etc.].
1897. H. S. Cowper, Register Bk. Hawkshead, p. lxxvi. Here many representatives of the squirarchal families … were interred.
