1988, Ann Thompson, The style of which is neither Rowleian nor Shakespearean but a particular blending of both.
1991, Mark Dominik, Bloodhound shows many signs of being a typical Rowleian clown; he is a fat clown, judging from his joke about breaking his girdle.
(literature) Of or pertaining to the work of (fictional) poet Thomas Rowley, a pseudonym of (1752-1770), English poet.
1782, Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, Mr. Tyrwhitt's book on the Rowleian controversy, which is reckoned completely victorious, are all the novelties I have seen since I left town.
1898, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, Chatterton... also imparted to Barrett two Rowleian poems, "The Parliament of Sprites," and "The Battle of Hastings" (in two quite different versions).
1898, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century, Tyrwhitt pointed out that the Rowleian dialect was not English of the fifteenth century, nor of any century, but a grotesque jumble of archaic words of very different periods and dialects.
