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Columbian, a. and n.|kəˈlʌmbɪən|
[f. mod.L. Columbia, poetical name for America (f. Columbus its discoverer) + -an.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to America or (esp.) the United States. Columbian printing press, an iron press for letterpress work. Also with specific reference to Christopher Columbus or to the time of his discovery of America, and ellipt.
1757Dyer Fleece ii. 67 Ev'n in the new Columbian world appears The woolly covering. 1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. 1841Savage Dict. Printing, Clymer of Philadelphia..came to England in 1817, and introduced the Columbian press. The head is a powerful lever, acted on by other levers to which the bar is attached. 1885Harper's Mag. Jan. 224/1 They [sc. skulls] could not have been ante-Columbian, because we turned up a bit of rusted iron, the fragment of a knife. 1898Forum Feb. 677 All the people of America, at the date of their discovery by Europeans in the Columbian epoch, were organized into tribes. 1903Daily Chron. 19 May 3/1 Future Columbian students. Ibid., So many early Columbian texts. 1965Aylesford Rev. Spring 13 He also had a large Albion..and a Columbian. Among printers the Columbian press is famed for its extreme decorativeness.
B. n. An American; an inhabitant or native of the U.S.A. Obs. exc. Hist.
1789S. Low Politician Outwitted ii. ii, in M. J. Moses Repr. Plays Amer. Dramatists (1918) I. 377 As the East is to the West..or the Aborigines of America to the Columbians of this generation, so is that line to this line. 1815W. Thornton Outl. Const. Columbia 1, I was born in America..and..I feel an unspeakable attachment to the whole race of Columbians. 1947St. Louis Globe-Democrat 7 Sept., Now they could call themselves Columbians instead of Americans. |