Pennsylvaniann.adj.

1685 Answer Duke of Buckingham on Lib. Consc. 12 I should suspect the Pensilvanian had Tutor'd him with this Quakeristical Divinity.

1747 G. Whitefield Let. 6 May in Wks. (1771) II. 94 The Pensylvanians I am sure will soon regret the loss of you.

1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iii. 58 Europeans..become not only Americans in general, but either Pennsylvanians, Virginians, or provincials under some other name.

1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. 10 345 I was once a Pennsylvanian.

1862 Evening Post (N.Y.) 21 May 1/2 Words of warm congratulation were sent to the dashing Pennsylvanian by the Commanding General.

1910 Harper's Mag. Aug. 473/1 Georg Shock..is a Pennsylvanian.

1953 W. Moore Bring Jubilee (1955) xx. 194 It was the Fourth of July, and a day of victory and rejoicing for all Pennsylvanians.

1990 News-Chron. (Shippensburg, Pa.) 12 Nov. a5/2 The Pennsylvanians were a trifle miffed.

1902 Science 4 Apr. 545/2 At the meeting of the Society [sc. the Geological Society of Washington] on March 12 the first paper, by George I. Adams, was entitled ‘Lithologic Phases of the Pennsylvanian and Permian of Kansas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma.’

1960 J. M. Weller Stratigr. Princ. & Pract. xii. 441 Fossils are rare and of little service in separating the Mississippian from the Pennsylvanian.

1986 G. Culverwell tr. P. Arduini & G. Teruzzi Macdonald Encycl. Fossils No. 173 The genus Achistrum..is known in the Mazon Creek beds in Illinois, dating from the Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous, 300 million years ago).

1698 G. Thomas Hist. Acct. Pensilvania 2 They (as the Pensilvanian Indians) observe the New Moons with great Devotion.

1744 B. Franklin (title) An account of the new invented Pennsylvanian fire-places;..with directions for putting them up.

1785 H. Marshall Arbustrum Americanum 51 Pennsylvanian Sharp-keyed Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica).

1825 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. 4 App. 455/1 I had my first view of the city of Philadelphia..on the Pennsylvanian shore.

1878 J. B. Killebrew Tenn. Grasses 230 Pennsylvanian Eatonia... Cattle seem to prefer it to any other pickings in the woods.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. X. 536/2 Pennsylvanian oil production is relatively much less important although quality is high.

1988 Conservation Biol. 2 356 A twenty-year record of understory vegetational change in a virgin Pennsylvanian forest.

1891 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 80. Table of Contents 5 The Coal Measures or Pennsylvanian series.

1906 T. C. Chamberlin & R. D. Salisbury Geol.: Earth Hist. II. x. 539 The need of a name to distinguish this system of rocks from those which have been described under the name Mississippian has long been felt, and the name Pennsylvanian, which has recently come into wide use in this country, was adopted because the system is well developed and well known in Pennsylvania.

1945 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 29 128 The coal, oil, gas, ceramic clays, and other minerals found in rocks of Pennsylvanian age greatly exceed the value of the mineral resources found in any other system.

1978 M. Lambert Fossils 20 The Palaeozoic era contains six periods, although American geologists divide the Carboniferous period into two: the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods.

1997 R. Fortey Life (1997) vii. 196 If stature was the most obvious change in vegetation from the early Devonian into the Pennsylvanian part of the Carboniferous period, subtler changes were happening with the reproductive system, as the limitations of spores were overcome.