philadelphian

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of or pertaining to Philadelphia, the chief city of Pennsylvania, situated on the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers.
2. n. A native or an inhabitant of the city of Philadelphia.
3. Pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, 283-247 b. c., a patron of literature, science, and art.
4. n. One of a short-lived mystical denomination founded in England in the end of the seventeenth century.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one of the cities named Philadelphia, esp. the modern city in Pennsylvania.
2. n. A native or an inhabitant of Philadelphia.
3. n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a society of mystics of the seventeenth century, -- called also the Family of Love.