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English
Etymology
From Elizabeth + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from; like; related to’ forming adjectives), referring to Elizabeth I (1533–1603).
Adjective
Elizabethian (comparative more Elizabethian, superlative most Elizabethian)
- Synonym of Elizabethan (“pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603”)
1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The characteristic defects of Wordsworth’s poetry, with the principles from which the judgement, that they are defects, is deduced—Their proportion to the beauties—For the greatest part characteristic of his theory only”, in Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, volume II, London: Rest Fenner, , →OCLC, page 166:Both in respect of this and of the former excellence, Mr. Wordsworth strikingly resembles Samuel Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethian age, now most causelessly neglected: […]
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I assist at an Explosion”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, , published 1850, →OCLC, page 532:This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethian Era, worse remains behind!
1995, Bruno Nettl, Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music, page 33:The correlation between costume and musical category is so strong that a hearing-impaired person could usually identify style and category by noting whether the musicians wear tuxedos, blazers, turtlenecks, robes, dhotis, Elizabethian garb, T-shirts with holes, or leather jackets.