Massachusettsian

English Etymology en Massachusetts ian Pronunciation en /mæsəˈt͡ʃusɛtsi.ən/ US Noun en dated A native or resident of Massachusetts. en 1802 [1962] John Adams L.H. Butterfield Diary and Autobiography of John Adams 336 Cambridge, Massachusetts 3 That he was a Virginian and I a Massachusettsian. en 1869 January http://books.google.com/books?id=lw3ZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA82&dq=%22Massachusettsian%22 82 Mayne Reid G.W. Carleton Onward Trifles A young Massachusettsian (is this correct orthography?), by name Nathaniel II. Bishop, a mere lad of seventeen, who, prompted by a love of nature, starts off from his New England home, reaches the La Plata River, and coolly "walks" to Valparaiso, across pampa and cordillera, a distance of more than a thousand miles ! en 1916 A History of Music w:Charles Villiers Stanford The Macmillan Company 324 http://books.google.com/books?id=hIMfAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA324&dq=%22Massachusettsian%22 Chadwick (54), though a Massachusettsian by birth, residence, and position is not so by preordination. He has a directness of thought, a humour, and a power of seeing himself as others see him that smack more of London or Paris than of Boston. en 1997 131 http://books.google.com/books?id=1yQowl-nEh8C&pg=PA131&dq=%22Massachusettsian%22 The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity Maggie Montesinos Sale Duke University Press 9780822319924 Much to the chagrin of many a Massachusettsian, on January 29, 1 842, Secretary of State Daniel Webster dispatched directions to the US ambassador to Great Britain in support of Calhoun's resolutions. en 2003 http://books.google.com/books?id=sa_-58fpwpkC&pg=PA42&dq=%22Massachusettsian%22 42–3 John Adams John P. Diggins Macmillan 9780805069372 The minor appointments were the Virginian Edmund Randolph as attorney general and the Massachusettsian Henry Knox as secretary of war. Hypernyms en American Adjective Of or relating to Massachusetts. en proper adjectives en Demonyms American demonyms Massachusetts, USA