a. and sb. [f. Styria (see below: in Ger. Steier, Steiermark) + -AN.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to Styria, a crownland and duchy of the Austrian empire.
1825. J. Russell, Tour Germany, II. 345. An irruption of the Tartars had driven a Styrian priest to save himself by flight.
1890. D. Davidson, Mem. Long Life, x. 246. The happy faces and picturesque costume of the Styrian peasantry.
1907. Athenæum, 21 Dec., 794/3. An isolated mountain village in the Styrian Alps.
B. sb. An inhabitant of Styria.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. II. i. 95. I. Aubanus Bohemius referres that Struma, or poke of the Bauarians & Styrians to the nature of their waters.
1867. H. P. Liddon, in J. O. Johnston, Life & Lett., v. (1904), 105. The sense of God’s presence—of the supernatural—seems to me to penetrate Russian life more completely than that of any of the Western nations which I have seen, except perhaps the Tyrolese and Styrians.
