Miltonianadj.n.

1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 1 Thy gift Pomona in Miltonian verse Adventrous I presume to sing.

1753 T. Allen (title) The new-birth; or, Christian regeneration. With the grounds, nature, and necessity thereof to salvation. Being the marrow of Christian theology expressed in blank or Miltonian verse.

1816 J. Keats Epist. to C. C. Clarke 57 Miltonian storms, and more, Miltonian tenderness.

1872 J. R. Lowell Milton in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 76 It is merely a Miltonian way of saying that he took regular exercise.

1940 M. Lowry Let. 27 July (1967) 32 It is ‘original’ if you fear for past Websterian, not to say Miltonian, minor lacks of ethics on my part.

1992 Amer. Hist. Rev. 97 895/1 But what about the devil of Christianity, who is indispensable for the larger framework and picture of deviltry, Miltonian or otherwise?

1748 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) I. 137 A Critic once to a Miltonian made Of Milton's Plagiarisms a long Parade.

1842 C. Dickens Let. 19 Oct. (1974) III. 352 I have been going, every day, to write you about the Miltonians.

1907 Illustr. London News 4 May 672/1 Nearly all Englishmen are either Shakesperians or Miltonians... Each represents something in the make-up of England.

1947 A. J. A. Waldock Paradise Lost i. 9 Grierson..observed, supervised and corrected; but not yet had England produced a New Miltonian.

1960 Times 22 Sept. 15/4 The most dyed-in-the-wool Miltonian.

1998 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 1 Mar. 1 d The intellectual elite, the literature scholars—the Shakespeareans, Chaucerians, Miltonians and Spenserians.