Connecticutensian

English

Etymology

From Connecticut +‎ -ensian.

Noun

Connecticutensian (plural Connecticutensians)

1. (rare) Synonym of Connecticuter
   • [1771 June 9, John Adams, “Diary, with Passages from an Autobiography”, in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, by His Granson Charles Francis Adams, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Charles C. Little and James Brown, published 1850, page 275:

     Heard a pretty sensible Yalensian Connecticutensian preacher.]

   • 1781, [Samuel Peters], A General History of Connecticut, from Its First Settlement under George Fenwick, Esq. to Its Latest Period of Amity with Great Britain; […], London: […] the Author; […] J[ohn] Bew, […], pages iv–v (Preface) and 278–279:

     Another reaſon for the obſcurity in which the Connecticutenſians have hitherto been involved, is to be found among their own ſiniſter views and purpoſes. […] Religion and Government.—Properly ſpeaking, the Connecticutenſians have neither, nor ever had; but, in pretence, they excel the whole world, except Boſton and Spain.

   • 1834 February, “Connecticut as it was”, in J[oseph] T[inker] Buckingham, editor, The New-England Magazine, volume VI, Boston, Mass.: […] J[oseph] T[inker] Buckingham, page 121:

     Hugh Peters’s History of Connecticut, printed in London, 1781, can hardly be known to many of our readers. The author states, that the Connecticutensians have been involved in obscurity, by a cloud of prejudice and knavery; for that Doctor Mather and Mr. Neal suppressed “what are called in New-England, unnecessary truths.”

   • 1932, Malcolm Decker, Benedict Arnold, Son of the Havens, pages 147–148, 251, 266, and 290:

     Bread and pork!—who of the poxed, deliquescent army was more qualified to supply it than our piratical Connecticutensian, so ready with his Lathrop-training, to give service, and also “fill his pocket”? […] The two New Hampshire regiments, and the Connecticutensians, poured deadly volleys across the clearing. […] Again Arnold hurls thunder with those Connecticutensians, and this time with telling effect. […] A bit snobbish, apt to sneer at Connecticutensians, or plain country Jonathans; and yet she was not without some sense in that Boston Flucker head of hers.

   • 1946, Kurt F. Leidecker, “The Religious Background”, in Yankee Teacher: The Life of William Torrey Harris, New York, N.Y.: The Philosophical Library, part I, “New England Period”, chapter III, “Early Environment”, pages 26–27:

     It was said, the Connecticutensians “loved the house of prayer, loved to leave it too.”

   • [1951, Odell Shepard, Willard Shepard, “Tuesday”, in Jenkins’ Ear: A Narrative Attributed to Horace Walpole, Esq., New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 202:

     Mr. Chute had now begun to “get the hang,” as they say in Connecticut, of Connecticutensian English, and even in his diluted rendering it has a pungency, a force, and a strange new sort of humour, which I wish we might import from our American colonies.]

   • 1964, Malcolm Decker, Brink of Revolution: New York in Crisis, 1765–1776, New York, N.Y.: Argosy Antiquarian Ltd., →LCCN, pages 4 (In the Beginning) and 208 (Coercion):

     This charter, which was to be the palladium of Connecticutensians, openly granted to Winthrop’s colony all of Long Island and Westchester. […] Most Connecticutensians were Whigs and dissenters and, properly aroused, were never squeamish about tormenting an Episcopalian Tory. […] [Parson] Peters was to live on and one day would describe Connecticutensians as “part man and part beast and wholly of the devil.” Peters had been only an outstanding character to be chased; but, as for a Sandemanian, a Connecticutensian really felt deep down that he could boil him in oil, but actually settled for feathers and a tar bucket.

   • 1966, Brand Book, page 10, column 2:

     Peter Pond, the whimsical Connecticutensian, whose forebears “ware all waryers ither by sea or land,” was the first, as far is known, to record that Indians along the Athabasca were using a “sticky substance oozing from the river banks to waterproof their canoes.”

   • 1995, Rupert Charles Loucks, “Let the Oppressed Go Free”: Reformation and Revolution in English Connecticut 1764-1775, page 376:

     “It must give pleasure to every Connecticutensian” that “no post of honour or profit” can “exist, but what is of his own conferring” and that “no court favour, elevation of birth or fortune,” nor “indeed anything but merit, can be the ground for preferment.”