a. Obs. Also 5 -yen. [a. OF. ter(r)ien terrestrial, seigniorial (12th c. in Godef., Compl.) f. terre land + -ien, -IAN: corresp. to a L. type *terriānus.] Earthly, worldly; territorial.
[1292. Britton, III. iv. § 21. Fey a noster Seignur le Roi … de vie et de membre, de cors et de chateaus et de terrien honour.]
c. 1450. Merlin, xx. 334. The kynge Arthur, that is oure lorde terrien.
1484. Caxton, Chivalry, 24. Thoffyce of a knyght is to mayntene and deffende his lord worldly or terryen. Ibid. (1489), Faytes of A., I. i. 5. Emperours, kynges, dukes & other lordes terryens.
