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Selbornian, a.|sɛlˈbɔːnɪən|
Also Selburnian.
[f. Selborne, the name of a village in Hampshire + -ian.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or connected with Selborne, the parish described in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789) by Gilbert White (1720-93). Also as n., an inhabitant of Selborne or an admirer of the writings of Gilbert White.
1869J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Almanac 32/1 How pleasant is his innocent vanity in adding to the list of the British, and still more of the Selbornian, fauna! 1928Observer 26 Feb. 8/5 Another book about ‘Gilbert White’,..a book full of pleasures for all Selbornians. 1938H. J. Massingham Writings of Gilbert White I. p. x, He writes of the Selburnian echo. Ibid. p. xxii, How absorbed the greatest and most typical of Selburnians was with gardening. 1954R. M. Lockley Gilbert White i. 9 Already he was able to convey his love of the Selbornian scene.
2. Geol. A name given by A. J. Jukes-Brown (see quot. 1900) to the Upper Greensand and Gault beds in the Albian stage of the Cretaceous in Southern England, from the prominent occurrence of these deposits near Selborne. Also absol. Now rare or Obs.
1900A. J. Jukes-Brown Cretaceous Rocks Brit. I. 1 The Selbornian comprises the beds which are generally known as the Gault and the upper Greensand. Ibid. 31 Gault clay and greensand are only two of the different kinds of deposits that make up the group for which the name Selbornian is now proposed. 1910[see Albian a. and n.]. 1922J. C. Hughes Geol. Story of Isle of Wight vi. 37 Some prefer to call the Lower Greensand Vectian, from Vectis, the old name of the Isle of Wight, and the Upper Greensand Selbornian, a name generally adopted, because it forms a marked feature of the country about Selborne. |