a. rare. [f. med.L. suffrāgāneus (see prec.) + -AN.] Suffragan. So Suffraganeous a., pertaining to a suffragan.
1704. Collect. Voy. (Churchill), III. 641/1. The Patriarch … has eight … Suffraganean Bishops.
1904. Times, Lit. Suppl., 4 Nov., 338/2. The dreary round of suffraganeous functions.
