amnicolist

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Etymology[edit]

Latin amnicola (dwelling by a river) + English -ist; compare the French amnicole

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amnicolist (plural amnicolists)

  1. (formal, rare) One who dwells by a river.
    • November 1782, Samuel Johnson, “A Tour to Celbridge”, in The Hibernian Magazine: or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, for November, 1782[1], page 553:
      I determined to explore the banks of the Liffey, and to ſearch among the amnicoliſts for that entertainment which eluded my purſuit in the urbanity of the capital[.]
    • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East[2], page 47:
      He must be no teague. He must be a franklin, but not an amnicolist.
    • 1894, Samuel Conkey, “An Adventure with a Hackee”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls[3], volume 21, part 1, page 185:
      Being easily exsuscitated, and an amnicolist fond of inescating fish and broggling, with an ineluctable desire for the amolition of care, I took a punt and descended the river[.]
    • 1906, J. E. L. Seneker, Frontier Experience: or, Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident[4], 102nd-anniversary edition, pages 12–14:
      I sojourned with agnations and cognations, who are amnicolists and engaged in terraculture, or agricolation.
    • 1920, Karle Wilson Baker, The Garden of the Plynck[5], page 16:
      She was not a bad-looking person, though an amnicolist.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:amnicolist.

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