a. [f. the name of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.] Characteristic of or resembling the style of Cervantes. So Cervantist, a student or admirer of Cervantes.
1759. Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1802), I. xii. 48. It was uttered with something of a Cervantic tone.
1882. Traill, Sterne, iv. 36. Mr. Shandy is of course the Cervantic centre of the whole.
1881. Athenæum, 19 Nov., 665/2. Lockhart was by no means abreast of the Cervantists of his time.
