Mississippiann.adj.

Brit.

/ˌmɪsᵻˈsɪpɪən/, U.S.

/mɪsᵻˈsɪpiən/

Forms: 1700s– Missisippian, 1800s Mississipian, 1800s– Mississippian.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Mississippi , -an suffix.

Etymology: < the name of the Mississippi River, and of the region and state named after the river (see Mississippi n.) + -an suffix.

A. n.

1. Originally: an inhabitant of the Mississippi valley region of the southern United States or of the Mississippi Territory. Now: a native or inhabitant of the state of Mississippi.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > specific state > states

Marylander1640

Rhode Islander1665

Jerseyman1679

Pennsylvanian1685

Carolinian1705

Georgian1732

Marylandian1750

Jersey blue1758

Californian1762

Louisianian1775

Mississippian1775

Acadian1776

Vermonteer1778

Kentuckian1779

Vermontese1783

Indianian1784

Cohee1786

Kentuck1789

Virginian1797

Michiganian1813

Michigan1814

Tennessean1815

Ohioan1818

Illinoian1819

Ohian1819

Missourian1820

buckeye1823

Vermonter1825

Hoosier1826

red horse1833

sucker1833

wolverine1833

puke1834

corn-cracker1835

Texian1835

Alaskan1836

Texan1837

Michigander1838

Oregonian1838

Rackensack1839

Arkansian1844

badger1844

Bay Stater1845

Lone Star Stater1845

Oregonese1845

tar-boiler1845

weasel1845

web foot1845

Alabaman1846

Iowanc1848

Arkansan1851

Minnesotian1851

Washingtonian1852

Minnesotan1854

Nebraskan1854

Kansian1855

Utahan1855

Floridan1856

fly-up-the-creek1857

Dakotian1861

Coloradan1862

Coloradian1862

Texican1863

Coloradoan1864

tarheel1864

Cajun1868

Kansan1868

Montanian1869

Floridian1870

mudcat1872

New Jerseyan1872

Arkansawyer1874

longhorn1876

Mainer1879

New Jerseyite1885

prune picker1892

Hawaiian1893

Oklahoman1894

Tex1909

blue hen's chicken1921

Tejano1925

Geechee1926

Arkie1927

sooner1930

wyomingite1930

New Mexican1940

Okie1948

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 93 ‘The ugly yellow French,’ (as they [sc. Indians] term the Missisippians).

1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. xi. 119 Creole is sometimes, though not frequently, applied to Mississippians.

1846 J. A. Quitman Let. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 225 Men..who wish to serve, as Mississippians, under the flag of their own state.

1867 Harper's Mag. June 1/1 Two of us New Englanders, and a Mississippian.

1900 Congress. Rec. 31 Jan. 1369/1 Mississippians are proud of Mississippi.

1948 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 4 May 1/6 I recognize our Negroes, as do all good white Mississippians, as a part of our citizenry.

2000 Oxf. (Mississippi) Amer. Jan.–Feb. 46/2 I was aided by the generosity of many Mississippians, black and white, who would steer me to a person or place.

2. Geology. The Mississippian period or system of rocks (see sense B. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > primary or Palaeozoic > carboniferous spec.

Mississippian1893

Pennsylvanian1902

Namurian1931

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [noun] > primary or Palaeozoic > carboniferous spec.

millstone grit1682

tumbler-beds1821

culm measures or series1836

Mississippian1893

Pennsylvanian1902

1893 Science 6 Oct. 193/1 In the lower Carboniferous, or Mississippian, the term Augusta is advocated for the terrane which Williams called the Osage.

1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 310/2 It became the practice to distinguish a ‘productive’ [Upper]..and an ‘unproductive’, barren..Lower Carboniferous; these two groups correspond in North America to the ‘Carboniferous’ and ‘Sub-Carboniferous’ respectively, or, as they are now sometimes styled, the ‘Pennsylvanian’ and ‘Mississippian’.

1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles ix. 184 The Carboniferous System is traditionally divided into the Lower and Upper Carboniferous in Britain and western Europe. The two systems in North America, the Mississippian and the Pennsylvanian, correspond broadly to these divisions.

1981 J. McPhee Basin & Range 132 In the late-middle Mississippian, there was an age called Meramecian.

1989 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 189/2 The early Mississippian is known as the ‘Age of Crinoids’, after the relatively immobile echinoderms that flourished at that time.

B. adj.

1. Of or relating to the Mississippi valley region or the state of Mississippi.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > specific states or regions > others

Carolinian1705

Georgian1740

Missourian1761

Alaskian1788

Vermontese1798

Alaskan1807

Michigan1814

Russo-American1814

Illinoian1818

Mississippian1819

Middle Atlantic1826

New Mexican1834

Louisianian1835

Texian1835

Oregonian1850

Texan1852

Nebraskan1853

Tennessean1853

Ozark1856

Dakotan1874

Kansan1894

Ozarkian1906

Tex-Mex1949

Texican1982

1819 C. Mead (title) Mississippian scenery; a poem, descriptive of the interior of North America.

1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. xxxi. 79 Of every variety of gaited animals..the Mississippian pacer is the most desirable.

1963 Economist 10 Aug. 509/2 A man who, in Mississippian terms, is a relative moderate on the race issue.

1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage ii. 69/2 (caption) Every Mississippian town had its chunkey court and a supply of stone disks.

2. Geology. [So called from the extensive exposures of rocks of this period in the Mississippi Valley (see quot. 1870).] Designating or relating to a period of the Palaeozoic era, between about 345 and 320 million years ago, which followed the Devonian and preceded the Pennsylvanian periods in North America, and corresponds to the Lower Carboniferous period in Europe; (also) designating or relating to the system of rocks dating from this period. Cf. A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > primary or Palaeozoic > carboniferous > specific period

Mississippian1891

Pennsylvanian1891

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [adjective] > primary or Palaeozoic > carboniferous > specific

Bernician1856

seral1858

vespertine1858

Mississippian1891

Pennsylvanian1891

Westphalian1895

Stephanian1901

Viséan1905

Tournaisian1910

Namurian1915

1870 A. Winchell Sketches Creation xii. 136 The Mountain limestone, or Lower Carboniferous mass, which I have proposed to designate the Mississippi Group, because so extensively developed in the valley of the Mississippi River.]

1891 H. S. Williams in Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 80. 135 As these formations are bound together by a common general fauna and constitute a conspicuous feature in the geology of this region, it is proposed to call them the Mississippian series.

1916 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 13 166 These formations were tilted to the southwestward and partly truncated in late Mississippian time.

1933 R. C. Moore Hist. Geol. xvii. 257 The consensus of judgment among American geologists increasingly supports the view that the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian deposits should be reckoned as independent geologic systems rather than as subordinate divisions (series) of a so-called system that combines them.

1933 R. C. Moore Hist. Geol. xvii. 260 Red shale and sandstone..with a maximum thickness of about 3,000 feet form the upper part of the Mississippian system in much of the Appalachian region.

1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 131 Evaporite sediments of Mississippian age have caused similar uplift in nearby Nova Scotia.

1988 Nature 27 Oct. 810/2 Calcite seas seem to have been prevalent also during the Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and Cretaceous periods.

3. Archaeology. Of, relating to, or designating an ancient North American Indian culture ( a.d. 1000–1540) which originated in the central Mississippi River Valley.

ΚΠ

1945 Amer. Antiq. 11 57/1 Cult elements are first seen in Georgia in the intrusive Middle Mississippian complex.

1952 Missouri Archaeologist 14 99 Another non-Hopewellian but distinctively Mississippian trait is the circular engraved shell gorget.

1965 J. Brown & H. W. Hamilton Spiro & Mississippian Antiquities 11 We find a Mississippian cultural adaptation in the Southeast.

1989 National Geographic Mar. 383/1 Everything has been scrambled. This field is one of the prime Mississippian sites of the Ohio River Valley from the time of European contact. Now much of what we could have known is lost forever.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mississippian
释义	Mississippiann.adj. Brit. /ˌmɪsᵻˈsɪpɪən/, U.S. /mɪsᵻˈsɪpiən/ Forms: 1700s– Missisippian, 1800s Mississipian, 1800s– Mississippian. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Mississippi , -an suffix. Etymology: < the name of the Mississippi River, and of the region and state named after the river (see Mississippi n.) + -an suffix. A. n. 1. Originally: an inhabitant of the Mississippi valley region of the southern United States or of the Mississippi Territory. Now: a native or inhabitant of the state of Mississippi. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > specific state > states Marylander1640 Rhode Islander1665 Jerseyman1679 Pennsylvanian1685 Carolinian1705 Georgian1732 Marylandian1750 Jersey blue1758 Californian1762 Louisianian1775 Mississippian1775 Acadian1776 Vermonteer1778 Kentuckian1779 Vermontese1783 Indianian1784 Cohee1786 Kentuck1789 Virginian1797 Michiganian1813 Michigan1814 Tennessean1815 Ohioan1818 Illinoian1819 Ohian1819 Missourian1820 buckeye1823 Vermonter1825 Hoosier1826 red horse1833 sucker1833 wolverine1833 puke1834 corn-cracker1835 Texian1835 Alaskan1836 Texan1837 Michigander1838 Oregonian1838 Rackensack1839 Arkansian1844 badger1844 Bay Stater1845 Lone Star Stater1845 Oregonese1845 tar-boiler1845 weasel1845 web foot1845 Alabaman1846 Iowanc1848 Arkansan1851 Minnesotian1851 Washingtonian1852 Minnesotan1854 Nebraskan1854 Kansian1855 Utahan1855 Floridan1856 fly-up-the-creek1857 Dakotian1861 Coloradan1862 Coloradian1862 Texican1863 Coloradoan1864 tarheel1864 Cajun1868 Kansan1868 Montanian1869 Floridian1870 mudcat1872 New Jerseyan1872 Arkansawyer1874 longhorn1876 Mainer1879 New Jerseyite1885 prune picker1892 Hawaiian1893 Oklahoman1894 Tex1909 blue hen's chicken1921 Tejano1925 Geechee1926 Arkie1927 sooner1930 wyomingite1930 New Mexican1940 Okie1948 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 93 ‘The ugly yellow French,’ (as they [sc. Indians] term the Missisippians). 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. xi. 119 Creole is sometimes, though not frequently, applied to Mississippians. 1846 J. A. Quitman Let. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 225 Men..who wish to serve, as Mississippians, under the flag of their own state. 1867 Harper's Mag. June 1/1 Two of us New Englanders, and a Mississippian. 1900 Congress. Rec. 31 Jan. 1369/1 Mississippians are proud of Mississippi. 1948 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 4 May 1/6 I recognize our Negroes, as do all good white Mississippians, as a part of our citizenry. 2000 Oxf. (Mississippi) Amer. Jan.–Feb. 46/2 I was aided by the generosity of many Mississippians, black and white, who would steer me to a person or place. 2. Geology. The Mississippian period or system of rocks (see sense B. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun] > primary or Palaeozoic > carboniferous spec. Mississippian1893 Pennsylvanian1902 Namurian1931 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [noun] > primary or Palaeozoic > carboniferous spec. millstone grit1682 tumbler-beds1821 culm measures or series1836 Mississippian1893 Pennsylvanian1902 1893 Science 6 Oct. 193/1 In the lower Carboniferous, or Mississippian, the term Augusta is advocated for the terrane which Williams called the Osage. 1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 310/2 It became the practice to distinguish a ‘productive’ [Upper]..and an ‘unproductive’, barren..Lower Carboniferous; these two groups correspond in North America to the ‘Carboniferous’ and ‘Sub-Carboniferous’ respectively, or, as they are now sometimes styled, the ‘Pennsylvanian’ and ‘Mississippian’. 1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles ix. 184 The Carboniferous System is traditionally divided into the Lower and Upper Carboniferous in Britain and western Europe. The two systems in North America, the Mississippian and the Pennsylvanian, correspond broadly to these divisions. 1981 J. McPhee Basin & Range 132 In the late-middle Mississippian, there was an age called Meramecian. 1989 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 189/2 The early Mississippian is known as the ‘Age of Crinoids’, after the relatively immobile echinoderms that flourished at that time. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to the Mississippi valley region or the state of Mississippi. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > specific states or regions > others Carolinian1705 Georgian1740 Missourian1761 Alaskian1788 Vermontese1798 Alaskan1807 Michigan1814 Russo-American1814 Illinoian1818 Mississippian1819 Middle Atlantic1826 New Mexican1834 Louisianian1835 Texian1835 Oregonian1850 Texan1852 Nebraskan1853 Tennessean1853 Ozark1856 Dakotan1874 Kansan1894 Ozarkian1906 Tex-Mex1949 Texican1982 1819 C. Mead (title) Mississippian scenery; a poem, descriptive of the interior of North America. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. xxxi. 79 Of every variety of gaited animals..the Mississippian pacer is the most desirable. 1963 Economist 10 Aug. 509/2 A man who, in Mississippian terms, is a relative moderate on the race issue. 1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage ii. 69/2 (caption) Every Mississippian town had its chunkey court and a supply of stone disks. 2. Geology. [So called from the extensive exposures of rocks of this period in the Mississippi Valley (see quot. 1870).] Designating or relating to a period of the Palaeozoic era, between about 345 and 320 million years ago, which followed the Devonian and preceded the Pennsylvanian periods in North America, and corresponds to the Lower Carboniferous period in Europe; (also) designating or relating to the system of rocks dating from this period. Cf. A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > primary or Palaeozoic > carboniferous > specific period Mississippian1891 Pennsylvanian1891 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [adjective] > primary or Palaeozoic > carboniferous > specific Bernician1856 seral1858 vespertine1858 Mississippian1891 Pennsylvanian1891 Westphalian1895 Stephanian1901 Viséan1905 Tournaisian1910 Namurian1915 1870 A. Winchell Sketches Creation xii. 136 The Mountain limestone, or Lower Carboniferous mass, which I have proposed to designate the Mississippi Group, because so extensively developed in the valley of the Mississippi River.] 1891 H. S. Williams in Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 80. 135 As these formations are bound together by a common general fauna and constitute a conspicuous feature in the geology of this region, it is proposed to call them the Mississippian series. 1916 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 13 166 These formations were tilted to the southwestward and partly truncated in late Mississippian time. 1933 R. C. Moore Hist. Geol. xvii. 257 The consensus of judgment among American geologists increasingly supports the view that the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian deposits should be reckoned as independent geologic systems rather than as subordinate divisions (series) of a so-called system that combines them. 1933 R. C. Moore Hist. Geol. xvii. 260 Red shale and sandstone..with a maximum thickness of about 3,000 feet form the upper part of the Mississippian system in much of the Appalachian region. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 131 Evaporite sediments of Mississippian age have caused similar uplift in nearby Nova Scotia. 1988 Nature 27 Oct. 810/2 Calcite seas seem to have been prevalent also during the Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and Cretaceous periods. 3. Archaeology. Of, relating to, or designating an ancient North American Indian culture ( a.d. 1000–1540) which originated in the central Mississippi River Valley. ΚΠ 1945 Amer. Antiq. 11 57/1 Cult elements are first seen in Georgia in the intrusive Middle Mississippian complex. 1952 Missouri Archaeologist 14 99 Another non-Hopewellian but distinctively Mississippian trait is the circular engraved shell gorget. 1965 J. Brown & H. W. Hamilton Spiro & Mississippian Antiquities 11 We find a Mississippian cultural adaptation in the Southeast. 1989 National Geographic Mar. 383/1 Everything has been scrambled. This field is one of the prime Mississippian sites of the Ohio River Valley from the time of European contact. Now much of what we could have known is lost forever. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1775
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