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Shandean, a. (and n.)|ˈʃændɪən, ʃænˈdiːən|
Also 8 Shandeyan, 9 Shandyan (n.), Shandeian.
[f. (Tristram) Shandy, the title of a novel (1759–67) by Sterne + -an.]
Pertaining to Tristram Shandy, or the Shandy family there portrayed.
1762Sterne Tr. Shandy VI. xvii, I write a careless kind of a civil, nonsensical, good-humoured Shandean book, which will do all your hearts good. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. Pref. 8 A couple of Shandean duodecimos. 1769Chatterton Jrnl. Sixth Poet. Wks. (1886) 153 But Hudibrastics may be found To tire ye with repeated sound, So changing for a Shandeyan style, I ask your favour and your smile. 1782T. Jefferson Notes State of Virginia (1787) 234 His stile is easy and familiar, except when he affects a Shandean fabrication of words. 1887Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 107 Scott's delightful Shandean jest on him. 1909Sichel Sheridan I. 3 [Sheridan's] inner texture is Shandeian.
Comb.1762Sterne Let. 9 July, Wks. 1885 IV. 496, I had hired a chaise and horse.., but, Shandeanlike, did not take notice that the horse was almost dead when I took him.
b. n. One who has the ‘Shandean’ spirit.
1866P. Fitzgerald Lamb (ed. 2) 187 Another point of resemblance between these two great Shandyans [sc. Sterne and Lamb] was their both writing little quaint autobiographies.
So also † Shanˈdaic a. ˈShandeism (ˈShandyism), the style or the philosophy of the novel Tristram Shandy. ˈShandy v. quasi-trans., to Shandy it, to play a Shandean part; trans. to bandy in Shandean fashion. † ˈShandyize v. = prec.
a1761J. Gilbert Let. to Sterne, Shandyise. 1761Sterne Let. ? Aug., Wks. 1885 IV. 479 If God..had not poured forth the spirit of Shandeism into me, which will not suffer me to think two moments upon any grave subject. 1762― Let. 19 Mar., Ibid. 485, I Shandy it away fifty times more than I was ever wont, talk more nonsense than ever you heard me talk in your days. 1766― Let. 25 Nov., Ibid. 542, I am going to lie in of another child of the Shandaick procreation, in town. 1831Mirror XVII. 234/2 The book is altogether Shandean, and the satire shandied to and fro with great vivacity. 1891Daily News 15 Oct. 6/1, I..imbibed Shandyism from him [Sterne] to the dregs. 1903Blackw. Mag. May 712 He invented a Shandeism perfectly consistent with his own age and his own taste. |