Meanings
plural amnicolists
- formalrareOne who dwells by a river.
She was not a bad-looking person, though an amnicolist.
1920, Karle Wilson Baker, The Garden of the Plynck, page 164 more examples
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[.]
November 1782, Samuel Johnson, “A Tour to Celbridge”, in The Hibernian Magazine: or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, for November, 1782, page 553He must be no teague. He must be a franklin, but not an amnicolist.
1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 47Being 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[.]
1894, Samuel Conkey, “An Adventure with a Hackee”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume 21, part 1, page 185I sojourned with agnations and cognations, who are amnicolists and engaged in terraculture, or agricolation.
1906, J. E. L. Seneker, Frontier Experience: or, Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident, 102nd-anniversary edition, pages 12–14
Origin
From Latin amnicola (“dwelling by a river”) + -ist. Compare French amnicole.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish joen rannalla asuva ihminen
- joen rannalla asuva ihminenone who dwells by a river
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