amnicolist
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin amnicola (“dwelling by a river”) + English -ist; compare the French amnicole
Pronunciation
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Noun
amnicolist (plural amnicolists)
- (formal, rare) One who dwells by a river.
- 1782: Samuel Johnson, “A Tour to Celbridge” in The Hibernian Magazine: or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, for November, 1782, 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, page 47
- He must be no teague. He must be a franklin, but not an amnicolist.
- 1894: Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, 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, pages 12–14 (102nd-Anniversary Edition)
- I sojourned with agnations and cognations, who are amnicolists and engaged in terraculture, or agricolation.
- 1920: Karle Wilson Baker, The Garden of the Plynck, page 16
- She was not a bad-looking person, though an amnicolist.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:amnicolist.
- 1782: Samuel Johnson, “A Tour to Celbridge” in The Hibernian Magazine: or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, for November, 1782, page 553
Translations
one who dwells by a river
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References
- “†amˈnicolist” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]