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Westˈphalian, a. and n.
[f. prec.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to, connected with, Westphalia.
1604Marston & Webster Malcontent iv. iii, The sallo-westfalian-gamon-faced zaza. 1668J. Wilson Erasm. Praise of Folly (1913) 25 As plump and round as a Westphalian Hogg. 1708Addison Present St. War 34 The Westphalian Treaty. 1764Falconer Poems, Demagogue 128 Her vital blood, that pour'd from every vein, So late, to fill th' accurs'd Westphalian drain. 1820Mem. Crt. Westphalia 220 The Westphalian troops performed miracles at Moskwa. 1824Byron Juan xv. lxv, They also set a glazed Westphalian ham on. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain xviii, I have seen many a Westphalian hog quite as tall.
2. Geol. [ad. F. westphalien (A. de Lapparent Traité de Géologie (ed. 3, 1893) 819).] Of or belonging to a stratigraphic division of the Upper Carboniferous in Europe, above the Namurian and below the Stephanian. Also absol.
1901[see Stephanian a.]. 1915C. Schuchert Text-bk. Geol. II. xl. 729 The Coal Measures formation is again divided into two series, the earlier half, or Middle Carboniferous, being widely known as the Westphalian..when coal bearing. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles ix. 221 In Britain the greater part of the Coal Measures belongs to the Westphalian. 1976Nature 22 July 277/1 The age of this late retrogression..is synchronous with the intrusion of younger Variscan granites, a major break in sedimentation and the main phase of Hercynian folding (Sudetic phase: Westphalian in age).
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Westphalia.
1778Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. 311 Wernerus Rolewinck, a Westphalian. 1820Mem. Crt. Westphalia 220 The Westphalians lost, in this battle, many valuable officers. |