Ludovician

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin Ludovicus +‎ -ian.

Adjective

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Ludovician (comparative more Ludovician, superlative most Ludovician)

  1. Relating to any person called Louis or Ludwig.
    • 1807, Coxe, History of the House of Austria, page 522:
      The Ludovician branch was afterwards divided [...]
    • 1850, M. J. B. Silvestre, Universal Palæography, page 512:
      The fac-simile exhibits a minuscrule Capetian writing, already become Ludovician [...]
    • 1994, Richard Mowery Andrews, Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, page 551:
      Those trajectories encompassed absolute social extremes: the kings of France making their solemn entries into Paris through the Ludovician Arch of the Porte [...]