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English Adjective - Of or relating to the county of Norfolk in England. en 1622 w:Michael Drayton w:Poly-Olbion Manchester Spenser Society Volume 2, 1890, Twelfth Song, p. 223 http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008868972 And when in their revenge, the most insatiate DaneUnshipt them on our shores, under their puissant Swane:And swolne with hate and ire, their huge unweeldy force,Came clustring like the Greeks out of the Woodden-horse:And the Norfolcian Townes, the neer’st unto the East,With sacriledge and rape did terriblest infest:Those Danes yet from the shores we with such violence drave,That from our swords, their ships could them but hardly save. 1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xxix, he treats with his usual learning on the funeral rites of the antient nations; exhibits their various treatment of the dead; and examines the substances found in his Norfolcian urns. 1837, Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. Manning dated 25 December, 1815, in The Letters of Charles Lamb, London: Edward Moxon, Volume 2, p. 18, You have no turkeys; you would not desecrate the festival by offering up a withered Chinese bantam, instead of the savoury grand Norfolcian holocaust, that smokes all around my nostrils at the moment, from a thousand fire-sides. Noun A native or resident of Norfolk. en 1721 w:John Strype Ecclesiastical Memorials 2 London Samuel Bagster 1816 Book I, Chapter 21, p. 285 https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalme02stry A great appearance of these rebellious Norfolcians were got together near Lyn: but the magistrates and people of that town did not side with them, but kept themselves loyal to the king. en 1801 Review Erratics The Monthly Review 35 August 387 http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008697294 The most prominent characteristics of the ‘Norfolcians,’ the writer observes, are habitual cleanliness, and a strong peculiarity of dialect. 1833, “Sporting Intelligence,” The Sporting Magazine, Volume 7 (Second Series), No. 42, October 1833, p. 495, In the Norfolcians’ second innings, when the two Pilches met together, it was a high treat to the lovers of batting—nothing could excel the beauty of their play. en terms suffixed with -ian en British demonyms Norfolk, England