Sinesian
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From Sinese + -ian and Sinesia + -an. Compare earlier Chinesian.
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Sinesian (not comparable)
- (archaic) Synonym of Chinese or Chinese-like, of, related to, or similar to Chinese people, things, or culture. [1875]
- 1875, Andrew Wynter, “Kew Gardens”, in Fruit between the Leaves, pages 20-21:
- In the time of George II., when these grounds were first laid out for his son, the Chinese fashion in gardening was in vogue, and the grounds round the present lake by the Palm-house were designed after the fashion of the picture in the old-fashioned willow-pattern plate... The Great Pagoda, however, which still stands in handsome preservation some little distance off, in the midst of the Arboretum or pleasure-ground, is the only vestige of this Sinesian garden folly of the eighteenth century now remaining.
- 2018 March, Maxat Kassen, “Open Data and Its Institutional Ecosystems...”, in Canadian Public Administration, volume 60, page 118:
- ... the Sinesian World (e.g., cross-institutionally between all Chinese-speaking nations) ...
- (archaic, now rare) Synonym of East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture: of or related to the Sinosphere. [1899]
- 1899 April, Frederick Victor Dickins, "The Origins of the Japanese State", The English Historical Review, No. LIV, p. 226:
- The almost total absence of the warrior-spirit from the poetry of the Far East is a remarkable fact in the history of Sinesian civilisation.
- 1905 September 16, “Literature: The Far East. By Archibald Little...”, in Athenæum, number 4064, page 361:
- In this admirable work an authentic account is given of that tract of the earth's surface to which in these columns we have sometimes ventured to give the name Sinesia—the Far East, that immense Asiatic region which nature has isolated from the rest of the world by deserts, mountains, and seas... Now, through Japan, the West has made a definite breach in Sinensian exclusiveness; even China is assuredly following....
- 1899 April, Frederick Victor Dickins, "The Origins of the Japanese State", The English Historical Review, No. LIV, p. 226:
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- “Sinesian, adj.”, in OED Online
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