a. nonce-wd. [see -ISH.] Savoring of a catalogue.
1791. T. Twining, Country Clergym. (1882), 148. You would feel them [your own verses] dry, prosaic, and cataloguish, and be glad when you had got through them, and felt yourself buoying up again to the right level.
1896. M. Humphrey, A Cycle Show in Little, in Godey’s Mag., CXXXII. April, 369/1. It is, then, with a fiendish ambition to destroy the reader’s bliss of ignorance that I have undertaken this all-too-cataloguish account of some of the more important novelties and sundries that will tantalize the bicyclist of 1896.
1919. R. Lynd, Ireland a Nation, xviii. 187. One finds the same charm, the same cataloguish charm, in The Wayfarer.
