a. [f. UNION sb.1 + -IC.] Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, a Union or University Union Society; frequenting or debating at the Union.
1855. Househ. Words, 30 June, 521. I breakfasted with jovial undergraduates…. I heard old talk … of Unionic speakers eloquent.
1865. Pall Mall G., 13 April, 10/1. The characteristics of Unionic eloquence.
1884. J. Payn, Lit. Recoll., 54. In Mr. Lewis’s classification of his fellow-students, it was that of ‘the Unionic Cantab.’
