Belonging or relating to a governor.
1734. The Governor in his gubernatorial capacity.—‘N.J. Archives’ (1894), xi. 368. (N.E.D.)
1789. (Feb.) “Three gubernatorial Esculapians” are mentioned in a pasquinade by Benjamin Russell.—J. T. Buckingham, ‘Specimens of Newspaper Literature,’ ii. 54. (Italics in the original.)
1806. “The late gubernatorial election.” I love what is plain, and hate such bloated nonsense.—The Balance, Feb. 4, p. 35/3.
1809. In 1634 [he] ascended the gubernatorial chair (to borrow a favourite though clumsy appellation of modern phraseologists).—W. Irving, ‘The Knickerbockers’ (1861), p. 113. (N.E.D.)
1813. The gentleman who distributed Votes at the Gubernatorial Election in April last.—Boston-Gazette, May 13.
1819. Should his master reach the gubernatorial chair…. Ye who in 1816 called your patriotick Brooks to the gubernatorial chair.—Mass. Spy, March 24.
1819. My election to the gubernatorial chair of this state.—John Geddes of S. Carolina to E. S. Thomas: see the latter’s ‘Reminiscences,’ i. 109 (Hartford, 1840).
1821. A bet was made in Providence, on the late gubernatorial election.—Mass. Spy, May 9.
1824. It is probable there will be another warmly-contested Gubernatorial Election.—Mass. Yeoman, Worcester, Feb. 11.
1840. [Mr. Throop] was elevated to the gubernatorial chair of the State of New York.—Mr. Vanderpoel of N.Y., House of Rep., May 2: Cong. Globe, p. 373.
1845. The gubernatorial candidate of that party had voted against the confirmation of the Texas treaty.—Mr. Dayton of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, Feb. 24: id., p. 387, App.
1855. Thank God, we have a man to stand at our head in a gubernatorial capacity; a man who has got a good heart, and is willing that we should enjoy the federal rights of the Constitution as well as himself.—Brigham Young, Feb. 18: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 188.
1888. It was an uneasy head that wore the gubernatorial crown [in Texas, in 1862].—Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ pp. 218–9.
1910. We decline absolutely to credit the report that Gov. Hughes will accept an appointment to the Supreme Court bench. Having set his hand to the Gubernatorial plough, we believe Mr. Hughes will not turn back until he has ploughed the last furrow on December 31.—N.Y. Evening Post, April 21.
