Ormondian

English Etymology From en Ormond ian, from Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond. Adjective In support of or pertaining to Thomas Butler, especially as regards the faction that supported him in the Desmond Rebellions. en 1812 An Historical Letter to the Rev. Charles O'Conor Francis Plowden 74 The Ormondian golden age! en 1898 The Epic of Humanity, Or, The Quest of the Ideal 29 So wounded Desmond borne from field Captive upon Ormondian shield, Hearing– " Where now is Desmond ? " – shrilled, " Where but in proper place of fear, Still on the necks of Butlers, here.” en 1899 Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 110 While O'Neill, the defender of Arras and the hero of Benburb, was ordered off to employ his arms in Connaught lest his presence should interfere with the designs of the new council, which had now grown quite Ormondian. en 1988 The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell, Wilbur Cortez Abbott 154 We think it our duty to let you know that all the Popish party in Ireland and the Septs and Ormondian party are like to join as one man. Noun A supporter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond. en 1784 The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan 256 I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side. en 1814 The History of Ireland Thomas Leland 238 As the Ormondians conveyed him from the field, stretched on a bier, his supporters exclaimed, with a natural triumph, " Where is now the great lord of Desmond!" en 1885 Ireland Under the Tudors Richard Bagwell 86 Desmond's road to Youghal was also open, but he preferred the middle course of returning to Lismore, where his auxiliaries were, with whose help he might hope clearly to outnumber the Ormondians, who refreshed themselves, and continued the even tenor of their way southwards to the ford at Affane. en 1914 History of the Queen's County John O'Hanlon 475 Attacked in front and rear, the Ormondians were piked and shot, and many were left mangled along the pass.