Relating to government.
1735. The governmental View besides that, was, with Numbers of free white People, well settled, to strengthen the southern Part of the English Settlements on the Continent of America.—F. Moore, ‘A Voyage to Georgia,’ 27 (1744) (N.E.D.)
1781. It [Hebron] pays one part out of seventy-three of all governmental taxes; and is a bed of farmers on their own estates.—Samuel Peters, ‘History of Connecticut,’ p. 171 (Lond.). (N.E.D.)
1791. Its [America’s] first settlers were emigrants from different European nations, and of diversified professions of religion, retiring from the governmental persecutions of the old world, and meeting in the new, not as enemies, but as brothers.—Thomas Paine, ‘Rights of Man,’ ii. 2. (N.E.D.)
1850. Why, in a country like this, where the avenues of employment are so wide open to all, are men so anxious to quit private pursuits for governmental employment?—Mr. Bayly of Virginia, House of Repr., Feb. 8: Cong. Globe, p. 135, App.
