Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A geologist.
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- noun dated A
geologist .
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Examples
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In that instant all I could remember of it were his gibes at the "geologian," as he was wont to term Professor Dobbs,
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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Rather than a theologian, Berry considered himself a cosmologist and "geologian," an Earth scholar.
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Christian symbols and Christian ceremonies speak as plainly to the student of ancient religions as the stars speak to the astronomer, and the rocks to the geologian; Christian Churches are as full of the fossil relics of the old creeds as are the earth's strata of the bones of extinct animals.
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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I say that if they have struck the hoss in the mine, they have struck a hoss IN THE LAND, a Spanish hoss; a hoss that have no bridle worth five thousand dollar in his mouth, but a hoss to rear, and a hoss that cannot be struck out by a Yankee geologian; and that hoss is
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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"But Professor Dobbs, your geologian, what does HE say to this frequent recurrence of the conglomerate sandstone period in your study?"
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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I shall precipitate myself to the geologian by the throat.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869
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One Catholic priest who fully grasped his intimate connection with the earth chose to call himself not a theologian, but a geologian.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED cabinboy 2010
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Yet many of us in North America have become "autistic" to the natural world and have to re-attune ourselves to the whisperings of non-human nature, notes "geologian" Thomas
Thestar.com - Home Page Stephen Scharper 2010
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"The geologian would not that he should break up the happy efening of his friends by thees small detail.
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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"Yes, I understand all that; but how about this geologian?
Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869
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