addisonian

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1. Of or relating to Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English writer and politician.

   What goes down with them and with the public is a bit of sensational realism told in terse newspaper English. Literary English,—Addisonian English,—is a mistake.

   1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 10

2. Of or relating to Addison's disease.

   Addisonian crisis

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   Addisonian pernicious anaemia