a. [ad. L. type *suburbicānus, f. suburbium SUBURB, after suburbicārius.] = SUBURBICARIAN.

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1659.  Gauden, Tears Ch., I. i. 27. One Ecclesiasticall polity [which] … extended, not onely to the walls of that city, but to the suburbican distributions.

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1681.  R. L’Estrange, Apol. for Protest., III. i. 51. The Suburbican Places of about an hundred Italian Miles from Rome.

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1687.  W. Johnston, Assur. Abby Lands, 16. The Suburbican Diocess of Rome.

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1782.  Priestley, Corrupt. Chr., II. xi. 289. The popes … had no … authority beyond the suburbican provinces.

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1884.  Times, 1 Feb., 6. Two of the six Suburbican Sees being vacant at the same time.

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1894.  Tablet, 4 Aug., 174. St. Bonaventure … was compelled to accept the Suburbican See of Albano.

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