On the success of Noah Webster's dictionary: "As a result the word Websterian—meaning 'invested with lexical authority'—rapidly entered the language...".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MORE BAD WRITING.] Reference

Websterian head, though the large, firm mouth and admirably moulded chin rather recalled those of Henry Clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

OED: Websterian (wEb'stI@rI@n), a.1 Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Webster's Dictionary (see prec.) or any of its later versions or abridgements.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MORE BAD WRITING.] Reference

Websterian sort, massive and logical, but rather of that magnetic kind which wins and sways an audience at will, sometimes to smiles and then to tears, but always with definite persuasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 02, February, 1888] Reference

The Websterian dogmas had then no advocates in New England.    From Wordnik.com.  [A soldier's recollections : leaves from the diary of a young Confederate : with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South,] Reference

Websterian massiveness that does not detract from their charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference

“Yes, he has a large brain ” a sort of Websterian intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Canal Boy to President]

Websterian forehead, needing no seal to give the world assurance of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective] Reference

It essentially becomes background music to a series of Websterian verbal highlights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Websterian because the missile in the Wilderness mangled his leg and maimed him for life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of the Civil War] Reference

Websterian has for the ardent worshipper, have been disposed to hurry them over as of no moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Webster] Reference

Smith was an old-fashioned attorney of the Websterian sort, dignified, ponderous, and impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Telephone] Reference

Illinois; a huge, ponderous, grey-eyed, bald senator, with a Websterian head, who lived in Peonia?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy, an American novel] Reference

President Price's speech had a Websterian dignity and power in it .... which astonished his audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising] Reference

Jedd Deane, with his most pronounced Websterian air -- he was always oscillating between the manner of Webster and that of Rufus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference

He was a Websterian figure, with the venality of the great Daniel in all its pompous dignity modernized -- and correspondingly expanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain of Dust] Reference

It were too much like mixing Websterian dignity with a cataleptoid convulsion, or sitting on a red ant hill and trying to look unconcerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference

"I have been to breakfast, Ruth," replied this visitor, throwing back her sun-bonnet and thereby displaying a forehead and brow that for height and breadth was truly Websterian.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference

Although it is more ornate than anything in the later period, the following description of the passing away of the heroes of the Revolution is a fine example of the Websterian style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections)] Reference

Besides its clergy, Boston showed a literary group, led by Ticknor, Prescott, Longfellow, Motley, O.W. Holmes; but Mr. Adams was not one of them; as a rule they were much too Websterian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston (1848–1854)] Reference

I joined the Websterian Society and frequently debated, and was one of the three or four orators chosen by the school to “orate” in a grove on the shore of the lake, on the Fourth of July.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Friend John Burroughs]

But Ratcliffe would not be warned; on the contrary, the only effect of Mrs. Lee's defiance was to exasperate his ill-temper, and whenever he lost his temper he became senatorial and Websterian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy, an American novel] Reference

The November 1968 and February 1970 issues of WORD WAYS, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics, generalized the AEIOU problem by asking for Websterian examples of words containing each of the 120 different possible orderings of the vowels.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1] Reference

She did not think it necessary to tell him that she had persuaded the honest Carrington to bring her the volumes and to mark such passages as were worth her reading; but she took care to lead the conversation, and she criticised with some skill and more humour the weak points in Websterian oratory, saying with a little laugh and a glance into his delighted eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy, an American novel] Reference

I suppose he is a courtly person of the old school with a Websterian intellect. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Senator North] Reference

I'm sure I howp good may come o't, but ---- "and with an ominous shake of the head she ended the Websterian harangue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference

"You'll hear some old fool make a Websterian speech full of periods and rhetoric, and you'll straight-way imagine yourself in love with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senator North] Reference

"Yes, he has a large brain -- a sort of Websterian intellect.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield] Reference

From the grand Websterian forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Book of Western Verse] Reference

That huge Websterian plough what furrows drew.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 857. At Marshfield by William Cleaver Wilkinson. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

Websterian fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference

Websterian sort, dignified, ponderous, and impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Telephone] Reference