Addisonian

American  

[ad-uh-soh-nee-uhn] / ˌæd əˈsoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Joseph Addison or his works.

2. fluent and clear in literary style.

3. of or relating to Addison's disease.

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noun

1. one who studies the works of Joseph Addison.

Etymology

Origin of Addisonian

Addison + -ian

Example Sentences

There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay on the value of a paper currency.

From Time Magazine Archive

He, therefore, one evening prepared an article, before he was sixteen years of age, which, with the greatest care, was written in pure Addisonian diction.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

He has related it in Addisonian English, and it has been read almost as widely as the adventures of Robinson Crusoe or Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop

He concludes with an account, written in an Addisonian vein, of a club to which he had the honour to belong.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

The list is a quaint bit of Addisonian satire, almost worthy to rank by the side of Sir Roger de Coverley.

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)