a. (sb.) [ad. late L. suburbicārius (see prec.).]
1. = SUBURBICARIAN.
1654. Bramhall, Just Vind., v. (1661), 93. One who understood the ancient proper bounds of the Roman Patriarchate as well as any man, doth limit it to the Suburbicary Churches, that is a part of Italy, and three Islands, Sicilia, Sardinia and Corsica.
1692. Sir T. P. Blount, Ess., 11. The Suburbicary Region of Italy.
1725. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 17th C., I. II. v. 152/1. Some Provinces of Italy were distinguish’d by the Names of Suburbicary and Annonary.
1853. E. H. Browne, Expos. 39 Art., xxxvii. § 2 II. 635. As to the limits of the Roman Patriarchate, much depends on what is meant by the term Suburbicary Churches.
1908. Ch. Times, 5 June, 761/1. Rome, with the suburbicary region, had long enjoyed a certain political independence.
† b. sb. pl. The suburbicarian provinces of Italy.
1665. Stillingfl., Grounds Protest. Relig., II. vi. Wks. 1709, IV. 426. All the Provinces in the Diocese of Italy … which Provinces the Lawyers and others term Suburbicaries.
† 2. Suburban. Obs.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 124. Such numerous rows of stately and ambitious buildings, as made old London envy the magnificence of her Sub-urbicary sister.
