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单词 autobiographal
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autobiographaladj.

Brit. /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)bʌɪˈɒɡrəfl/, U.S. /ˌɔdəˌbaɪˈɑɡrəf(ə)l/, /ˌɔdoʊˌbaɪˈɑɡrəf(ə)l/, /ˌɑdəˌbaɪˈɑɡrəf(ə)l/, /ˌɑdoʊˌbaɪˈɑɡrəf(ə)l/
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Or perhaps formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: autobiographical adj.; -al suffix1; autobiographical adj.
Etymology: Probably partly a typographical error for autobiographical adj., and partly either < autobiograph- (in autobiography n.) + -al suffix1 or shortened < autobiographical adj. Compare earlier autobiographic adj., and also pseudepigraphal adj., cryptographal adj., etc.
= autobiographical adj.Some of the examples given may be typographical errors for autobiographical.
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autobiographical1807
autobiographic1818
autographical1824
autobiographal1845
1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors III. xci. 390 The following autobiographal [in some later edd. autobiographical] account of these occurrences.
1891 P. Schaff Renaissance xii. 57 He continued, however, his literary labors, wrote orations, pompous briefs, autobiographal memoirs, and commentaries on his reign.
1912 W. S. Davis Rome & West v. 144 Julius Cæsar was often his own literary advocate; Augustus has left us an autobiographal statement in a stately inscription.
2005 J. D. Popkin Hist., Historians, & Autobiogr. viii. 222 Their [sc. historians'] usual concerns about the reliability of autobiographal testimony exist here, too.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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