a. [ad. L. type *suburbicānus, f. suburbium SUBURB, after suburbicārius.] = SUBURBICARIAN.
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.
1681. R. LEstrange, Apol. for Protest., III. i. 51. The Suburbican Places of about an hundred Italian Miles from Rome.
1687. W. Johnston, Assur. Abby Lands, 16. The Suburbican Diocess of Rome.
1782. Priestley, Corrupt. Chr., II. xi. 289. The popes had no authority beyond the suburbican provinces.
1884. Times, 1 Feb., 6. Two of the six Suburbican Sees being vacant at the same time.
1894. Tablet, 4 Aug., 174. St. Bonaventure was compelled to accept the Suburbican See of Albano.