bi·o·graph·i·cal

(bī′ə-grăf′ĭ-kəl) also bi·o·graph·ic (-grăf′ĭk)

adj.

1. Containing, consisting of, or relating to the facts or events in a person's life.

2. Of or relating to biography as a literary form.

bi′o·graph′i·cal·ly adv.

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bi•o•graph•i•cal

(ˌbaɪ əˈgræf ɪ kəl)

also bi`o•graph′ic,

adj.

1. of or pertaining to a person's life.

2. pertaining to or containing biography: a biographical dictionary.

[1730–40]

bi`o•graph′i•cal•ly, adv.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

biographical - of or relating to or being biography; "biographical data"

Translations

biographical

[ˌbaɪəʊˈgræfɪkəl] ADJ → biográfico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

biographical

[ˌbaɪəˈgræfɪk^əl] adj [detail, information] → biographique

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

biographical

[ˌbaɪəʊˈgræfɪk/əl] adj → biografico/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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I have written the present volume because I have found no other that, to my mind, combines satisfactory accomplishment of these ends with a selection of authors sufficiently limited for clearness and with adequate accuracy and fulness of details, biographical and other.

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Biographical historians and historians of separate nations understand this force as a power inherent in heroes and rulers.

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And then, without rhyme or reason, all sceptical, my mind flew back to a small biographical note in the red-bound Who's Who, and I said to myself, "She was born in Cambridge, and she is twenty-seven years old." And then I said, "Twenty-seven years old and still free and fancy free?" But how did I know she was fancy free?

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The village paper published biographical sketches of the boys.

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They linger for a dozen pages over a tea-party, but sum up a life's history with "he had become one of our merchant princes," or "he was now a great artist, with the world at his feet." Why, there is more real life in one of Gilbert's patter-songs than in half the biographical novels ever written.

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It was a very good article, vaguely biographical, for no one knew much of Cronshaw's early life, but delicate, tender, and picturesque.

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Please send by return mail his photograph and biographical data.

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In compliance with this custom--unquestionably a bad one --we subjoin a few biographical words, in relation to the party at Mr.

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He mentioned the names and titles of all the guests, giving biographical sketches of the principal people.

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At every step he named some topographical or biographical detail that left nothing to be desired on the score of accuracy.

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"I propose that each member of this party now gives a short biographical sketch of himself or herself," said Hirst, sitting upright.

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Thomas Carlyle, with his natural taste for what is manly and daring in character, has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.

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