Websterian
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or characteristic of Daniel Webster, his political theories, or his oratory.
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pertaining to or characteristic of Noah Webster or his dictionary.
Etymology
Origin of Websterian
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Ratcliffe is "a great ponderous man, over six feet high, very . . . dignified," with "rather good features" and a bald Websterian head.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Pomerene, a solemn, bookish man with a Websterian manner, whose hobby is growing early table corn, is not a banker.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Websterian ideal of language as a careful garden of hardy perennials and occasional exotics, cultivated by a corps of devoted lexicographers, is consistently challenged by a weedy invasion of the vulgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor has this diabolism anything grand or impressive about it—anything that "intends greatly" and glows, as has been said, with a black splendour, in Marlowesque or Websterian fashion.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
But I hev deskivered that lower stratum—I hev found it; and when the idea flashed over my Websterian intelleck, I shouted Halleloogy!
From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Thomas Nast
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