Don-Quixotic

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Don Quixotic.

   If I knew, at least, that you meant to write a fictional life of Zacharias Lichter, so be it! Or a comedic history, serene, Don-Quixotic, naive, larger than life.

   2018, Matei Calinescu, “Epilogue: Zacharias Lichter and His Biographer”, in Adriana Calinescu, Breon Mitchell, transl., The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter, New York, N.Y.: New York Review Books, →ISBN, page 143

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   To interfere in behalf of a woman so situated, would cast a sort of contamination on her; and therefore have the effect of Don-Quixotic interruption of the boy’s castigation from his master,—only redouble the stripes.

   1822, Robert Ker Porter, Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. During the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820, volume II, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], page 721

   After waiting for fully three-quarters of an hour the Don-Quixotic looking individual who had received me announced himself as ready to show us the remaining parlors.

   1883 February 21, Rex, “Our Washington Letter—A Visit to the White House—What is to be Seen in Some of the Rooms”, in Morning Journal and Courier, volume LI, New Haven, Conn.: Carrington & Co., published 27 February 1883

   It was true that in the levities of her own infatuation, in the insolences of her sudden social triumph, she had showered upon the Don-Quixotic mentor of her girlhood, open, cruel, and contemptuous slights.

   1889 February 2, H. F. Wood, “The Englishman of the Rue Cain”, in Supplement to the York Herald, number 11,755, page 2

   A Don Quixote he lived, and a Don Quixote he died, according to Wasserman, who writes: “When he felt his last hour was near, he sent for a notary and witnesses, intending to cancel the will of 1498 and draw up another. It begins with the Don-Quixotic dictum: ‘As I am making a free gift of India to the King and Queen . . .’[…]”

   1930 September 24, Elmo Scott Watson, “The “Don Quixote of the Seas””, in Thomas County Herald and Thomas County Clipper, volume XLIII, number 18, Thedford, Neb.

   Of all of the inane, misdirected and Don-Quixotic editorials and cartoons you’ve ever run to knock down a strawman argument, your sophomoric pap about the introduction of Encore to cable viewers takes the cliche.

   1991 June 16, Joseph Corfield Jr., “Encore”, in Sunday Montgomery Advertiser, 164th year, number 167, Montgomery, Ala., page 3D