a. [f. prop. name Chesterfield + -IAN.] Relating to, or characteristic of, the fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), a writer on manners and etiquette. So Chesterfieldism.
1778. Phil. Surv. S. Irel., 291. All the Chesterfieldian indecorums of laughter.
1885. Homilet. Rev., June, 545/1. We are not pleading … for Chesterfieldian etiquette.
1830. Gentl. Mag., C. II. 135. Business is not regulated by Chesterfieldism.
