Alfredianadj.n.

Brit.

/alˈfriːdɪən/, U.S.

/ælˈfridiən/

Forms: 1700s– Alfredian, 1800s– Ælfredian.

Origin: From proper names, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Alfred , -ian suffix.

Etymology: < the name of Alfred, Ælfred (Old English Ælfred), King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons (reigned 871–99) + -ian suffix.

A. adj.

Of, associated with, or characteristic of King Alfred the Great, his writings, or his language.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer

Lucianical1561

Xenophontean1593

Sidneian1599

Anastasian1621

Theophrastical1662

Menippean1693

Varronian1693

Herodotean1748

Shaftesburian1752

Cervantic1760

Alfredian1762

Swiftian1762

Richardsonian1763

Pepysian1765

Rabelaica1768

Rabelaisian1769

Johnsonian1775

Radcliffian1801

Southeyan1817

Lucianic1820

Xenophontic1822

Thucydidean1826

Walter Scottish1827

Voltairean1833

Juvenalian1839

Dickens-like1841

Dickensian1842

Voltairish1842

Hazlittian1844

Theocritean1846

Dickensish1849

Ruskinian1850

Ruskinesque1854

Dickensy1855

Dickenesque1856

Macaulayesque1856

Ruskinite1856

Thackerayan1857

Ruskinese1863

Macaulayish1865

Walpolian1867

Dickensesque1868

Voltairianized1872

Baconian1874

Balzacian1874

Morrisian1879

Isidorian1882

Poe-like1882

Peacockian1886

Poe-esque1886

Zolaesque1886

Macaulayan1887

Bunyanesque1888

Fieldingesque1888

Junian1888

Meredithian1888

Tacitean1890

Hugoesque1893

Hardyesque1894

Kiplingesque1894

Shawian1894

Maeterlinckian1895

Dickinsonian1896

Stevensonian1897

Austenish1898

Austenian1901

Leverish1903

Pateresque1903

Trollopian1903

Malorian1904

Shavian1904

Brontesque1905

Chestertonian1905

Jamesian1905

Leveresque1905

Jacobean1906

Carrollese1907

Hardyan1907

Stendhalian1907

Turgenevian1908

Ouidaesque1909

Galsworthian1912

Poeish1915

Paterian1918

Sitwellian1920

Conradian1921

Mallarméan1924

Theophrastian1924

Wildean1924

Pirandellian1925

Proustian1925

Flaubertian1926

Wodehousian1926

Joycean1927

Stracheyan1927

Theophrastic1928

Yeatsian1928

Lawrentian1930

Firbankian1931

Melvillean1931

Leavisite1934

Runyonesque1934

Kafka1936

Woolfian1936

Twainian1938

Rilkean1939

Audenesque1940

Hemingwayesque1942

Brontëan1945

Kafkaesque1947

Leavisian1947

Morrisan1949

Orwellian1950

Faulknerian1951

Hemingwayan1951

Greeneian1952

Arnoldian1953

Thurberesque1954

Tolkienian1954

Beckettian1958

Hemingwayish1959

Nabokovian1959

Pinteresque1960

Pinterish1960

Vernean1960

Waughian1960

Bradleian1961

Gravesian1961

Kafkian1962

Jules Vernean1964

Snovian1966

Pinterian1967

Lucianesque1969

Tolkienesque1970

Thoreauvian1975

Stubbsian1979

1762 Monthly Rev. Jan. 1 The Alfredian Code would ill suit the nation, now that it has happily extended the wide circle of trade and commerce.

1818 Examiner 4 Jan. 2/1 Those who pique themselves..on having a true, Old English, Shakspearean, Alfredian cup.

1826 J. J. Conybeare Illustr. Anglo-Saxon Poetry 258 The style of these Ælfredian versions is distinguished from that of the Cædmonian school by its great simplicity of diction.

1899 C. Plummer Two Saxon Chrons. Parallel II. p. cxiv The Alfredian Chronicle up to 892, itself compiled from earlier materials under Alfred's supervision.

1900 Folk-lore 11 87 An obvious allusion to Woden's signal favours to his son, purged of all heathenism in the true Alfredian manner.

1974 D. A. Hinton Catal. Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork Ashmolean Mus. 44 Athelney and its neighbour Lyng were early Alfredian ‘Burhs’.

1997 Compar. Lit. 49 311 Alfredian translations include Boethius's Consolations, Augustine's Soliloquies, and Gregory's Pastoral Care.

B. n.

The dialect of Old English used by King Alfred the Great. Cf. West Saxon n. 2. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Old English > varieties of

West Saxon1834

Mercian1836

Anglian1875

Northumbrian1889

Alfredian1933

1933 C. L. Wrenn in Trans. Philol. Soc. 74 We may then consider how far our material will enable us to deduce Alfred's norm, and then inquire more fully into Sweet's own ‘normalized Early West Saxon’—or Alfredian, as we have seen that it should strictly be termed.

Compounds

Alfredian English n. the dialect of Old English used by King Alfred the Great; cf. West Saxon n. 2.

ΚΠ

1871 H. Sweet King Alfred's Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care p. vi I have given..a short sketch of the characteristics of Alfredian English as distinguished from those of the later period.

1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Jan. 14/3 The preverb ge- in Alfredian English.

2006 R. Hogg in A. van Kemenade & B. Los Handbk. Hist. Eng. xvi. 400 The digraph <ie> which is only commonly found in Alfredian English and not at all in Ælfrician English.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	alfredian
释义	Alfredianadj.n. Brit. /alˈfriːdɪən/, U.S. /ælˈfridiən/ Forms: 1700s– Alfredian, 1800s– Ælfredian. Origin: From proper names, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Alfred , -ian suffix. Etymology: < the name of Alfred, Ælfred (Old English Ælfred), King of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons (reigned 871–99) + -ian suffix. A. adj. Of, associated with, or characteristic of King Alfred the Great, his writings, or his language. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of specific writer Lucianical1561 Xenophontean1593 Sidneian1599 Anastasian1621 Theophrastical1662 Menippean1693 Varronian1693 Herodotean1748 Shaftesburian1752 Cervantic1760 Alfredian1762 Swiftian1762 Richardsonian1763 Pepysian1765 Rabelaica1768 Rabelaisian1769 Johnsonian1775 Radcliffian1801 Southeyan1817 Lucianic1820 Xenophontic1822 Thucydidean1826 Walter Scottish1827 Voltairean1833 Juvenalian1839 Dickens-like1841 Dickensian1842 Voltairish1842 Hazlittian1844 Theocritean1846 Dickensish1849 Ruskinian1850 Ruskinesque1854 Dickensy1855 Dickenesque1856 Macaulayesque1856 Ruskinite1856 Thackerayan1857 Ruskinese1863 Macaulayish1865 Walpolian1867 Dickensesque1868 Voltairianized1872 Baconian1874 Balzacian1874 Morrisian1879 Isidorian1882 Poe-like1882 Peacockian1886 Poe-esque1886 Zolaesque1886 Macaulayan1887 Bunyanesque1888 Fieldingesque1888 Junian1888 Meredithian1888 Tacitean1890 Hugoesque1893 Hardyesque1894 Kiplingesque1894 Shawian1894 Maeterlinckian1895 Dickinsonian1896 Stevensonian1897 Austenish1898 Austenian1901 Leverish1903 Pateresque1903 Trollopian1903 Malorian1904 Shavian1904 Brontesque1905 Chestertonian1905 Jamesian1905 Leveresque1905 Jacobean1906 Carrollese1907 Hardyan1907 Stendhalian1907 Turgenevian1908 Ouidaesque1909 Galsworthian1912 Poeish1915 Paterian1918 Sitwellian1920 Conradian1921 Mallarméan1924 Theophrastian1924 Wildean1924 Pirandellian1925 Proustian1925 Flaubertian1926 Wodehousian1926 Joycean1927 Stracheyan1927 Theophrastic1928 Yeatsian1928 Lawrentian1930 Firbankian1931 Melvillean1931 Leavisite1934 Runyonesque1934 Kafka1936 Woolfian1936 Twainian1938 Rilkean1939 Audenesque1940 Hemingwayesque1942 Brontëan1945 Kafkaesque1947 Leavisian1947 Morrisan1949 Orwellian1950 Faulknerian1951 Hemingwayan1951 Greeneian1952 Arnoldian1953 Thurberesque1954 Tolkienian1954 Beckettian1958 Hemingwayish1959 Nabokovian1959 Pinteresque1960 Pinterish1960 Vernean1960 Waughian1960 Bradleian1961 Gravesian1961 Kafkian1962 Jules Vernean1964 Snovian1966 Pinterian1967 Lucianesque1969 Tolkienesque1970 Thoreauvian1975 Stubbsian1979 1762 Monthly Rev. Jan. 1 The Alfredian Code would ill suit the nation, now that it has happily extended the wide circle of trade and commerce. 1818 Examiner 4 Jan. 2/1 Those who pique themselves..on having a true, Old English, Shakspearean, Alfredian cup. 1826 J. J. Conybeare Illustr. Anglo-Saxon Poetry 258 The style of these Ælfredian versions is distinguished from that of the Cædmonian school by its great simplicity of diction. 1899 C. Plummer Two Saxon Chrons. Parallel II. p. cxiv The Alfredian Chronicle up to 892, itself compiled from earlier materials under Alfred's supervision. 1900 Folk-lore 11 87 An obvious allusion to Woden's signal favours to his son, purged of all heathenism in the true Alfredian manner. 1974 D. A. Hinton Catal. Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork Ashmolean Mus. 44 Athelney and its neighbour Lyng were early Alfredian ‘Burhs’. 1997 Compar. Lit. 49 311 Alfredian translations include Boethius's Consolations, Augustine's Soliloquies, and Gregory's Pastoral Care. B. n. The dialect of Old English used by King Alfred the Great. Cf. West Saxon n. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Old English > varieties of West Saxon1834 Mercian1836 Anglian1875 Northumbrian1889 Alfredian1933 1933 C. L. Wrenn in Trans. Philol. Soc. 74 We may then consider how far our material will enable us to deduce Alfred's norm, and then inquire more fully into Sweet's own ‘normalized Early West Saxon’—or Alfredian, as we have seen that it should strictly be termed. Compounds Alfredian English n. the dialect of Old English used by King Alfred the Great; cf. West Saxon n. 2. ΚΠ 1871 H. Sweet King Alfred's Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care p. vi I have given..a short sketch of the characteristics of Alfredian English as distinguished from those of the later period. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Jan. 14/3 The preverb ge- in Alfredian English. 2006 R. Hogg in A. van Kemenade & B. Los Handbk. Hist. Eng. xvi. 400 The digraph <ie> which is only commonly found in Alfredian English and not at all in Ælfrician English. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1762
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