Adjectives that used to be people

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• 10 months ago nuxiy said:
  Kantian, Stirnerian, Schopenhauerian, nuxiyian
• almost 2 years ago john said:
  pantagruelian
• almost 2 years ago sionnach said:
  Wouldn't oxonian be preferred to oxfordian? Narcissistic? Franciscan? carmelite? Alexandrine? chaotic? Saturnine? Promethean? heraclitean? august? cimmerian?
• almost 2 years ago sionnach said:
  namby-pamby, Shavian, mercurial, hermetic
• almost 2 years ago rolig said:
  stentorian would fit here. And if deities are people, then you've got jovial, venereal, martial, apollonian, vestal, plutonian, cereal, etc. And then there are lots from the Bible: adamic, mosaic, johannine, pauline, simoniac, etc., not to mention christian. I apologize if you have already listed some of these.
• almost 2 years ago sarra said:
  herculean, gargantuan, protean, quixotic, titanic (sometimes)
  
  bowdlerized, galvanized, macadamized, pasteurized?
• almost 2 years ago dontcry said:
  Far out list. Maybe hip, or a few years earlier, simian, paleolithic or neolithic?
  
• almost 2 years ago pterodactyl said:
  Soylent adjectives are people!!!
• over 2 years ago chained_bear said:
  Wow, this is a neat list! Found it quite by accident. Might I humbly suggest Jacobean?
• over 2 years ago kewpid said:
  Thatcherite
• over 2 years ago oroboros said:
  That was William Backus, the notorious myope who was always advising people to 'back off' so he could see them properly?
• about 3 years ago seanahan said:
  Or the fellow in my class who asked "who is the 'back off' method named after?"
• about 3 years ago sionnach said:
  The temptation to compose bogus retronyms and etymologies is, of course, irresistible. For instance, quater, the hamiltonian professor of mathematics after whom quaternions are named. Or burl ives, a popular entertainer of the 20th century who suffered from a rare disorder which caused him occasionally to begin to disrobe on stage, from which the term burlesque is derived. Refer also to ecdysias, mentioned by galen as having the same disorder. and so on.
• about 3 years ago sionnach said:
  my favorite, shavian. Also, jeffersonian. Jacob yields several variations, each with a slightly different nuance - jacobin, jacobian, jacobean, jacobite.
• about 3 years ago trivet said:
  chauvinist
• about 3 years ago sonofgroucho said:
  Interesting idea for a list.
• about 3 years ago hildjj said:
  Like "grimalkin"
  
• about 3 years ago alguien said:
  There's a name for these: eponymous.
• about 3 years ago valse said:
  Manichaean