Connecticutensian

plural Connecticutensians

1. rareSynonym of Connecticuter.

   Heard a pretty sensible Yalensian Connecticutensian preacher.

   [1771 June 9, John Adams, “Diary, with Passages from an Autobiography”, in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, by His Granson Charles Francis Adams, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Charles C. Little and James Brown, published 1850, page 275

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   Another reaſon for the obſcurity in which the Connecticutenſians have hitherto been involved, is to be found among their own ſiniſter views and purpoſes.[…]Religion and Government.—Properly ſpeaking, the Connecticutenſians have neither, nor ever had; but, in pretence, they excel the whole world, except Boſton and Spain.

   1781, [Samuel Peters], A General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement under George Fenwick, Esq. to Its Latest Period of Amity with Great Britain; […], London: […] the Author; […] J[ohn] Bew, […], pages iv–v (Preface) and 278–279

   Hugh Peters’s History of Connecticut, printed in London, 1781, can hardly be known to many of our readers. The author states, that the Connecticutensians have been involved in obscurity, by a cloud of prejudice and knavery; for that Doctor Mather and Mr. Neal suppressed “what are called in New-England, unnecessary truths.”

   1834 February, “Connecticut as it was”, in J[oseph] T[inker] Buckingham, editor, The New-England Magazine, volume VI, Boston, Mass.: […] J[oseph] T[inker] Buckingham, page 121

   Bread and pork!—who of the poxed, deliquescent army was more qualified to supply it than our piratical Connecticutensian, so ready with his Lathrop-training, to give service, and also “fill his pocket”?[…]The two New Hampshire regiments, and the Connecticutensians, poured deadly volleys across the clearing.[…]Again Arnold hurls thunder with those Connecticutensians, and this time with telling effect.[…]A bit snobbish, apt to sneer at Connecticutensians, or plain country Jonathans; and yet she was not without some sense in that Boston Flucker head of hers.

   1932, Malcolm Decker, Benedict Arnold, Son of the Havens, pages 147–148, 251, 266, and 290

   It was said, the Connecticutensians “loved the house of prayer, loved to leave it too.”

   1946, Kurt F. Leidecker, “The Religious Background”, in Yankee Teacher: The Life of William Torrey Harris, New York, N.Y.: The Philosophical Library, part I, “New England Period”, chapter III, “Early Environment”, pages 26–27

   Mr. Chute had now begun to “get the hang,” as they say in Connecticut, of Connecticutensian English, and even in his diluted rendering it has a pungency, a force, and a strange new sort of humour, which I wish we might import from our American colonies.

   [1951, Odell Shepard, Willard Shepard, “Tuesday”, in Jenkins’ Ear: A Narrative Attributed to Horace Walpole, Esq., New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 202

   Synonyms: Connecticuter