List of eponymous adjectives in English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from a the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms.
Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English.
* Christian — Jesus Christ
* Dickensian — Charles Dickens
* Draconian — Draco
* Elizabethan — Queen Elizabeth I
* Faustian — The character Faust, written about by Goethe and others"
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