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单词 alician
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Alicianadj.

Brit. /əˈlɪsɪən/, /əˈlɪʃ(ɪ)ən/, /əˈlɪʃn/, U.S. /əˈlɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Alice , -ian suffix.
Etymology: < the name of Alice, the heroine of two books by ‘Lewis Carroll’ (see Alice n.1) + -ian suffix.
Resembling or characteristic of the character Alice (see Alice n.1) or the books in which she appears; fantastical, absurd, illogical. Cf. Alice-in-Wonderland adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] > of fanciful nature
feigned1526
fantasticala1546
conceited1588
capricious1594
fanatical1598
vaporous1605
chimerical1638
chimeric1655
lymphatical1678
chimerian1682
wild goose1770
visionary1777
whimmy1785
whimming1787
Laputan1866
viewy1866
Alice1872
Alice-in-Wonderland1874
fantasied1882
Alician1898
blue-sky1920
pie in the sky1930
rocambolesque1935
1898 Standard 5 Dec. 3/4 A letter [from ‘Lewis Carroll’ (C. L. Dodgson)] to Miss Gertrude Chataway is highly Alician.
1916 I. Zangwill War for World 204 The most cursory examination of history reveals it as a Wonderland truly Alician.
1959 Ada (Oklahoma) 9 July 4/1 Things are apt to reach the Alician state of ‘curiouser and curiouser’.
2006 Observer 19 Nov. (Review section) 20/3 They go into..an Alician looking-glass and, in an alternative Paris, enter a film within a film based on two Henry James stories.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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