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belletristic, a.|bɛlləˈtrɪstɪk| [f. prec. + -ic.] Of or pertaining to belles-lettres.
1821Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. X. 254, I wish I could find a more familiar word than æsthetic, for works of taste and citicism. It is, however, in all respects better, and of more reputable origin, than belletristic. 1864Reader 2 Apr. 427/2 To start from the first of April the Grand Journal, as a belletristic weekly. 1866M. Arnold in Cornh. Mag. XIII. 290 An unlearned belletristic trifler like me. 1868Pattison Academ. Org. §5. 293 We have risen above the mere belletristic treatment of classical literature. So belleˈtristical († belles-leˈttristical) a., belleˈtristically adv.
1799W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. I. 259 His belles-lettristical pedantry. 1840Fraser's Mag. XXI. 199 No historical, biographical, geographical, or belle lettristical book..would now have much chance. 1894Westm. Gaz. 25 June 3/1 He trifles bellettristically around ghosts,..and the relation of ghosts to religion. |