a. [f. ALDERMAN + -IC; in imitation of words of Fr., L. or Gr. origin in -ic, as German-ic. The native adj. is ALDERMANLY.] Of, pertaining to, or like an alderman: a. (municipal.)
1770. Wilkes, Corr. (1805), IV. 32. For fear of growing more dull than usual in this thick aldermanic air.
1799. Southey, Nondescr., vi. Wks. III. 72. Aldermanic bliss.
1819. Shelley, Pet. Bell, Wks. 1839, 240. Lunches and snacks so aldermanic.
1837. Lockhart, Scott, IV. xli. 166. The feast was … gorgeous; an aldermanic display of turtle and venison.
1870. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-Bks. (1879), II. 19. Quite as dull in their aldermanic way.
1878. Mary C. Hay, Under the Will, I. 47. The emigrant can enjoy daily all the year round the aldermanic luxury of turtle soup.
1882. F. Buckland, Jottings Anim. Life, 255. A good plump seal or an aldermanic walrus.
b. (Old English.) Also ealdormanic.
1861. Pearson, Early & Mid. Ages Eng., 173. Probably in most shires there were several families of ealdormanic rank, from whom the holder of office was selected by the king, with advice and consent of his witan.
