Shandeanadj.n.
/ˈʃandɪən/, /ʃanˈdiːən/, U.S. /ˈʃændiən/ A. adj.
Relating to Tristram Shandy, or the Shandy family there portrayed.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer > of specific character or work
Pantagruelian1694
Shandean1762
Shandaic1766
Pickwickian1836
Pantagruelistical1838
Wellerian1838
Pantagruelistic1845
Pantagruelic1850
Welleresque1868
Pantagrueline1882
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VI. xvii. 71 I write a careless kind of a civil, nonsensical, good humoured Shandean book, which will do all your hearts good.
1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. Pref. 8 A couple of Shandean duodecimos.
a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 371 But Hudibrastics may be found To tire ye with repeated Sound, So changing for a Shandeyan Stile I ask your favour and your Smile.
1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xiv. 258 His stile is easy and familiar, except when he affects a Shandean fabrication of words.
1887 G. Saintsbury Ess. Eng. Lit. (1891) 107 Scott's delightful Shandean jest on him.
1909 Sichel Sheridan I. 3 [Sheridan's] inner texture is Shandeian.
B. n.
A person who has the ‘Shandean’ spirit.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > imitation or admiration of specific writer > follower or student of specific writer > of specific work or character
Pantagruelist1611
Pickwickian1836
Shandean1866
Pantagruelian1899
1866 P. 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.
Derivatives
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer > of specific character or work
Pantagruelian1694
Shandean1762
Shandaic1766
Pickwickian1836
Pantagruelistical1838
Wellerian1838
Pantagruelistic1845
Pantagruelic1850
Welleresque1868
Pantagrueline1882
1766 L. Sterne Let. 25 Nov. in Lett. 1765–8 (2009) 513 I am going to ly in of another child of the Shandaick procreation, in town.
†Shandeanlike adv. Obsolete
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1762 L. Sterne Let. 9 July in Lett. 1739–64 (2009) 282 I had hired a chaise and horse..but, Shandean like, did not take notice that the horse was almost dead when I took him.
ˈShandy v. transitive. to Shandy it, to play a Shandean part; to bandy in Shandean fashion.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > practise literary arts [verb (intransitive)] > imitate specific writer > specific character or work
Shandyizea1761
Shandy1762
1762 L. Sterne Let. 19 Mar. in Lett. 1739–64 (2009) 242 I Shandy it away fifty times more than I was ever wont, talk more nonsense than ever you heard me talk in your days.
1831 Mirror XVII. 234/2 The book is altogether Shandean, and the satire shandied to and fro with great vivacity.
ˈShandyism n. (also Shandeism) the style or the philosophy of the novel Tristram Shandy.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > ideas, etc., characteristic of specific writer > of specific character or work
Shandyism1761
Pantagruelism1835
Wellerism1838
1761 L. Sterne Let. May–June in Lett. 1739–64 (2009) 196 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.
1891 Daily News 15 Oct. 6/1 I..imbibed Shandyism from him [sc. Sterne] to the dregs.
1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 712 He invented a Shandeism perfectly consistent with his own age and his own taste.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > practise literary arts [verb (intransitive)] > imitate specific writer > specific character or work
Shandyizea1761
Shandy1762
a1761 J. Gilbert Let. to Sterne Shandyise.
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