biographicadj.

1752 Emendations on Appeal from Late Dean Swift 7 O deeply learn'd in Books and Men, I do allow your Lordship's Pen Describes, with Biographic Skill, His Death, his Fortune, and his Will.

1782 Brit. Mag. & Rev. 1 175/1 Biographic and historic truth compels us to record the disunion of this chaste, this holy connection.

1857 T. De Quincey R. Bentley (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay VII. 178 A biographic record.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. xi. 206 The biographic retrospect in the Epistle to the Galatians.

1906 Amer. Hist. Rev. 12 127 After having paid his debt to Calvin, he undertakes to give us biographic studies of every one of Calvin's familiars.

1941 B. J. Stern Society & Med. Progress ii. 44 The creative personality in medicine as in other sciences, does not effect change by the mere exercise of a powerful will, as most biographic histories suggest.

1985 I. M. Lewis Social Anthropol. in Perspective xi. 380 This biographic approach to the interactions binding people together, treats their shared frame of reference and activity as in some sense culturally specific.

2008 Guardian (Nexis) 5 June (Public section) 24 The National Identity Register will hold a small amount of personal biographic details separately from biometric details, to minimise the risk of theft or loss of people's identity.