Hapsburgian

English

Etymology

From Hapsburg +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Hapsburgian (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of Habsburgian.
   • 2010, Adam Warren, Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms, page 42:

     William Taylor describes the Crown at this time breaking with a Hapsburgian model of rule, which had been based on the parental metaphor of a Hispanic family, with the Crown as the father and the Church as the model.

Noun

Hapsburgian (plural Hapsburgians)

1. Alternative spelling of Habsburgian.
   • 2012, Albrecht Classen, Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Mental-Historical Investigations of Basic Human Problems and Social Responses, page 156:

     Let us conclude with some reflections upon the similarities and differences between both verse narratives, separated by ca. eighty to ninety years, the older one composed in Alsace (then in the western parts of the German Empire), the later one created in the area of Upper Austria (territory of the Hapsburgians, in the southeastern parts).