† geologiciann.
Obsolete.
= geologist n.
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hammerer1611
geologist1778
geognosist1797
geologer1797
geologue1799
geognost1802
geologian1813
geologician1818
fault-reader1891
rockhound1922
1818 R. Southey in Literary Panorama Feb. 819 By my troth, this John Roth Is an excellent guide..A geologician, a metaphysician, Who searches how causes proceed.
1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 701 ‘Munch,’ quoth the grave geologician, ‘munch.’
1855 M. Collins Idyls & Rhymes 48 A wretched old stone-breaking geologician.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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n.1818- to break a tree
- to break across
- to break all records
- to break an officer
- to break and enter
- to break any one of a practice or habit
- to break ass
- to break away
- to break back
- to break balls
- to break blows, words with
- to break bounds
- to break bread
- to break bulk
- to break chops
- to break cover
- to break covert
- to break day
- to break down
- to break etc for tall timber
- to break etc for the tall timber
- to break even
- to break faith
- to break for tall timber
- to break for the tall timber