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Mississippian, n. and a.|mɪsɪˈsɪpɪən|
[f. Mississippi (see below) + -an.]
A. n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Mississippi, a state on the Gulf of Mexico.
1775J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 93 ‘The ugly yellow French,’ (as they [sc. Indians] term the Missisippians). 1867Harper's Mag. June 1/1 Two of us New Englanders, and a Mississippian. 1948Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 4 May 1/6, I recognize our Negroes, as do all good white Mississippians, as a part of our citizenry. 1973A. Dundes Mother Wit 37 Mississippian David L. Cohn.
2. Geol. The Mississippian period or system.
1910Encycl. Brit. V. 310/2 It became the practice to distinguish a ‘productive’ [Upper]..and an ‘unproductive’, barren..Lower Carboniferous; these two groups correspond in North America to the ‘Carboniferous’ and ‘Sub-Carboniferous’ respectively, or, as they are now sometimes styled, the ‘Pennsylvanian’ and ‘Mississippian’. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles ix. 184 The Carboniferous System is traditionally divided into the Lower and Upper Carboniferous in Britain and western Europe. The two systems in North America, the Mississippian and the Pennsylvanian, correspond broadly to these divisions.
B. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or peculiar to Mississippi.
1835J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 79 Of every variety of gaited animals..the Mississippian pacer is the most desirable. 1963Economist 10 Aug. 509/2 A man who, in Mississippian terms, is a relative moderate on the race issue.
2. Geol. [Named after the Mississippi River, on the bluffs of which in Iowa and Missouri the system is exposed.] Of, pertaining to, or designating a period and system of the Palæozoic Era in North America that succeeded the Devonian and preceded the Pennsylvanian, and corresponds more or less to the Lower Carboniferous in Europe.
[1870A. Winchell Sk. Creation xii. 136 The Mountain limestone, or Lower Carboniferous mass, which I have proposed to designate the Mississippi Group, because so extensively developed in the valley of the Mississippi River.] 1891H. S. Williams in Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey No. 80. 135 As these formations are bound together by a common general fauna and constitute a conspicuous feature in the geology of this region, it is proposed to call them the Mississippian series. 1933R. C. Moore Historical Geol. xvii. 257 The consensus of judgment among American geologists increasingly supports the view that the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian deposits should be reckoned as independent geologic systems rather than as subordinate divisions (series) of a so-called system that combines them. Ibid. 260 Red shale and sandstone..with a maximum thickness of about 3,000 feet form the upper part of the Mississippian system in much of the Appalachian region. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 131 Evaporite sediments of Mississippian age have caused similar uplift in nearby Nova Scotia. |