a. [f. med.L. Carolīnus of Charles; and its derivative Carolina.]
a. Belonging to Charles the Great. b. Belonging to one or both of the Carolinas in U.S. Also sb.
1837. Keightley, Secr. Soc. Middle Ages, 345. They [Fehm-gerichts] are in the records also named … Carolinian Tribunals, as having been, as was believed, instituted by Charles the Great.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 226. Sharp and cold to a Carolinian.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., IV. xlvii. 228. It became the pride of native Carolinians not to accept a seat in [the king’s council].
