The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ciceronian \Cic`e*ro"ni*an\, a. [L. Ciceronianus, fr. Cicero, the orator.] Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"eloquent," a reference to Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.); also often known as Tully in early Modern English writers; Cicero being a cognomen of the genus Tullia.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Tullius%20Cicero, or the ideas in his philosophical treatises. 2 (context rhetoric English) Eloquent, resembling Cicero’s style.
Usage examples of "ciceronian".
When he was informed of my ignorance of German he addressed me in Latin, not of the Ciceronian kind by any means, but in that peculiar dialect which obtains at most of the German universities.
The Platonic, Ciceronian distinction between natural and artificial can no longer be maintained.
It ran: Contine te in perennibus studiis, and he had at once recognized it as a Ciceronian tag that had been dinned into him at school.
He genuinely loved Cicero, but was proof against Ciceronian weaknessesin which he followed the example set by Terentia, also wealthy, also unwilling to help Cicero out when his finances needed supplementing.
He had meant to give the afternoon to his own studies, to that translation of a book of Plato into Ciceronian Latin, at which, with a fellow of Corpus Christi College, he had been for some months at work.
In him Sassi had still been able to respect those traditional Ciceronian virtues which were inculcated with terrific severity in the Roman youth of fifty years ago.
But the Prince had died prematurely at the age of fifty, and with him the Ciceronian traditions had ended in Casa Conti, and their place had been taken by the caprices of the big, healthy, indolent, extravagant Polish woman, by the miserable weaknesses of a degenerate heir, and the fanatic religious practices of Donna Clementina.
Such, then, is the utmost and highest aim of the Paleyian or the Ciceronian ethics, as they exist.
We based our criteria for excellence on the ability at the Latin Theme, we abandoned all that with horror as outdated elitism, and we now do exactly the same thing, with algebraic formulae substituting for Ciceronian pedantries.
Latin of the enthusiastic shopman was becoming almost Ciceronian, when Tristram pulled out the coin, and holding it under his nose briefly stated the case.
Gallicisms and technical terminology are no longer proclaimed to the peasants, while the artisan is no more entertained with grandiloquent descriptions of the last night of Socrates, or with Ciceronian laudations of the Schoolmen.
As was the custom of the day, his speech was full of literary allusions, Ciceronian pomp and obscure historical references that bore only the scantest significance to the occasion.
Ciceronian, Latinity, which may be found, not in the Glossary of Ducange, but in the Thesaurus of Robert Stephens.