a. [f. FOX(E + -IAN.] Pertaining to: a. John Foxe, author of the Book of Martyrs; b. George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends or ‘Quakers.’
1641. Milton, Animadv. (1851), 197. They which one of your Bishops scornfully termes the Foxian Confessors. Ibid. (1642), An Apology against Smectymnuus (1851), 289. Whether he were the man who term’d the Maryrs Foxian confessors.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Quaker’s Meeting. Once only, and it was some years ago, I witnessed a sample of the old Foxian orgasm.
