vulcanistn.adj.

?1586 I. W. Copie Let. Learned Physician to Friend sig. B4 Vulcanists & painful smiths, which..take paines to blow the coles.

1594 H. Plat Diuers Chimicall Concl. Distillation 23, in Jewell House I perswade my selfe, that no philosophicall vulcanist, or perfect paracelsian, will ever finde any true magisterie, tincture, quintessence or Arcanum therein.

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. C2^v What Mechanicall hardhanded Vulcanist..but perswaded himselfe to be Maister..of his Company.

a1665 G. Starkey Expos. Six Gates v. 364 in Ripley Reviv'd (1678) A hasty rash Vulcanist shall make his Medicines to grow hard at the first, and with a stronger and continuate degree of heat, to melt into a vitrificate substance.

1822 J. J. Conybeare Let. 15 Dec. in Ann. Philos. (1823) New Ser. 5 53 The formation and consolidation of the substance by heat without fusion will still furnish the vulcanist with a new point of analogy.

1870 H. Jennings Rosicrucians xxviii. 276 The Fire-workers or Fire-raisers (Vulcanists) of an army.

1919 Times 22 Oct. 2/4 Chauffeur-mechanic.., certified vulcanist; excellent references.

1934 Times 12 Oct. 4/3 Welders, electricians, fitters, turners, moulders, patternmakers, smiths, painters, vulcanists, [etc.].

1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 60 Your La^ps Charity doth not reprove, but pity those poor Vulcanists, who ballance the inequality of their heels, or badger leggs, by the art and help of the shoemaker.

1794 Monthly Rev. 14 518 It appears, from several publications announced in the last number, that the mineralogical controversies of Germany, between M. Werner with his adherents or the Neptunists, and the Vulcanists, proceed with as much warmth as ever.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 90 In addition to volcanic heat, to which the Vulcanists formerly attributed too much influence, we must allow for the effect of mechanical pressure [etc.].

1884 L. Playfair in Good Words Feb. 93/1 Vulcanists of the old school would be equally perplexed, because petroleum is so volatile that..it would be dissipated.

1925 J. Park Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 2) ii. 16 Hutton..considered crustal movements as due to extreme heat and expansion supplemented by volcanic disturbance and earthquakes. His views found many disciples and formed the basis of the theses of the school of Vulcanists or Plutonists.

1969 New Yorker 19 Apr. 52/2 Baldwin..was the first person to suggest convincingly that meteors might have made many of the moon's craters; previously, almost all selenologists had been vulcanists.

2011 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 31 May 24 Rocks from Ramore Head at Portrush finally settled this dispute in favour of the vulcanists.

1897 Science 24 Dec. 926/2 These views ‘practically started the Vulcanist camp, and his promulgated tenets regarding basalt became the watchword of the Neptunists’.

1953 S. F. Mason Hist. Sci. xxxiii. 321 In the period 1790–1830..the Vulcanist view became associated with the theory that rock strata had gradually evolved, and Neptunism with the theory that the strata were formed suddenly and catastrophically.

2011 G. Darley Vesuvius iii. 89 His observations had led him to change his views from Neptunist to Vulcanist.