Arnoldianadj.n.
/ɑːˈnəʊldɪən/ A. adj.
Belonging to or characteristic of either Thomas Arnold or his son Matthew Arnold.
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society > education > [adjective] > system of education
Lancasterian1807
heuristical1819
Pestalozzian1826
heuristic1844
progressive1860
Philanthropinist1864
Chautauqua1873
Froebelian1873
Fröbel1875
co-educational1881
extramural1884
Arnoldian1888
co-ed1889
Montessori1912
Montessorian1912
work–study1924
essentialist1938
bilateral1947
Piagetian1960
open-ended1961
home-schooling1963
Nuffield1964
binary1965
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
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [adjective] > types of literary criticism
genetic1880
intertextual1904
form-historical1928
form-critical1933
New Critical1945
Leavisite1946
Leavisian1947
Arnoldian1953
post-structural1961
post-structuralist1967
Barthesian1971
Derridean1973
narratological1975
deconstructive1977
new historicist1985
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. v. 112 The ‘earnestness’ of an Arnoldian Rugby.
1902 Daily Chron. 24 Dec. 3/6 The Arnoldian tradition had almost died out... When it was announced that the new Headmastership was to be given to the Liberal Principal of Kneller Hall, everybody was gratified, even the boys, and the old school resumed its Arnoldian glory.
1953 Ess. in Crit. 3 2 It was in that conviction..that its founders gave this journal its Arnoldian title.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Nov. 658/4 The reference will produce the refutation of some possible charge of want of Arnoldian seriousness.
B. n.
An admirer or follower of either Arnold.
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society > education > [noun] > systematic education > systems of > advocates of
Philanthropinist1842
examinationist1856
modernist1856
Pestalozzian1859
secularist1872
Froebelian1873
modernizer1889
universitarianism1889
Arnoldian1904
anthroposophist1916
co-educator1920
progressive1930
Montessorian1934
outward-bounder1961
1904 Daily Chron. 19 Mar. 3/1 In only one respect is it likely to disappoint Arnoldians seriously.
1966 Punch 5 Jan. 31/2 Dennis..sees in him..something Arnoldian and headmasterly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.n.1888