Sinesian

//ˈsaɪniːziən// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of Chinese or Chinese-like, of, related to, or similar to Chinese people, things, or culture. archaic, not-comparable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Synonym of East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture: of or related to the Sinosphere. archaic, not-comparable

    "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."

Etymology

From Sinese + -ian and Sinesia + -an. Compare earlier Chinesian.

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