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Columbian ((adj.)) Hist. 
adj. associated with or characteristic of Columbia (def. 2), later British Columbia.
See also: Columbia (def. 2)
- 1861 When, therefore, the Columbian Government has finished the roads it is now making from Derby (Fort Langley) and when that of Canada shall have opened one from Lake Superior and the Selkirk Settlement, the means of communication will be complete across the whole continent.
- 1958 The Victoria Colonist of the time described the architecture as neither "Doric, Ionian, nor Corinthian, but decidedly Columbian."
- 1861 When, therefore, the Columbian Government has finished the roads it is now making from Derby (Fort Langley) and when that of Canada shall have opened one from Lake Superior and the Selkirk Settlement, the means of communication will be complete across the whole continent.