a. [see AUTO-.]
1. Of the nature of autobiography.
1850. Carlyle, in Athenæum, 18 June (1881), 815/3. An excellent good book, by far the best of the autobiographic kind I remember.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. II. (1873), 26. The writings of Dante … are all … autobiographic.
2. Of the character of an autobiographer.
1864. Reader, 28 April, 512/1. Was he never … autobiographic? Did he never make entries in … a sort of diary?
