Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
* Massachusetts + -ian
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most Massachusettsian | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more Massachusettsian | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
* Massachusetts + -ian
That he was a Virginian and I a Massachusettsian.1802 [1962], John Adams, edited by L.H. Butterfield, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, volume 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts, page 336:
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.1916, Charles Villiers Stanford, A History of Music, The Macmillan Company, page 324:
The minor appointments were the Virginian Edmund Randolph as attorney general and the Massachusettsian Henry Knox as secretary of war.2003, John P. Diggins, John Adams, Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 42–3:
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 !1869 January, Mayne Reid, “Trifles”, in Onward, G.W. Carleton, page 82:
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.1997, Maggie Montesinos Sale, The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 131:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusettsians | Number=Plur | lexicographic |