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English
Etymology
From Addison + -ian.
Adjective
Addisonian (comparative more Addisonian, superlative most Addisonian)
- Of or relating to Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English writer and politician.
1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire , 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J B Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 10:What goes down with them and with the public is a bit of sensational realism told in terse newspaper English. Literary English,—Addisonian English,—is a mistake.
- Of or relating to Addison's disease
- Addisonian crisis
- Addisonian pernicious anaemia
Derived terms
Translations
relating to Addison's disease