[f. L. silvestris (see SYLVESTER a.) + -AN.] Belonging to or found in woods; sylvan, rustic.

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1657.  Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 229. Mallows … is either Hortensian … or Sylvestrian.

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1716.  M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. Diss. Physick, 37. There’s nothing now remaining of those Sylvestrian Herbalists.

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a. 1732.  Gay, Wine, 131. Sylvestrian gods!

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1866.  J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Fasti, II. 289. Silvestrian deities. Ibid. (1867), trans. Virg. Æneid, 62. The Nymphs sylvestrian.

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