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Jonesian   Listen
adjective
Jonesian  adj.  Of or pertaining to Jones.
The Jonesian system, a system of transliterating Oriental words by English letters, invented by Sir William Jones.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jonesian" Quotes from Famous Books



... The character of Burne-Jonesian art is here very happily hit off. Happy, too, is Mr. Lang's sketch of the Philistian features ...
— By-ways in Book-land - Short Essays on Literary Subjects • William Davenport Adams

... what I venture to imagine must be "new matter" not in the Herman-plus-Jonesian version, I consider the scene in which Nora chaffs Dr. Rank about his illness absolutely nauseous, and the drink-inspired admiration of husband for wife in the concluding Act repulsive to the last degree. On Tuesday the spectators received the piece with patient apathy; ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., February 7, 1891 • Various



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