Mormonn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɔːmən/, U.S.

/ˈmɔrm(ə)n/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mormon.

Etymology: < the name of Mormon, a prophet to whom Joseph Smith (1805–44), founder of the church, attributed ‘The Book of Mormon’.

A. n.

1. A member or adherent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a millenary Christian sect founded in 1830 at Manchester, New York, by Joseph Smith.Smith claimed to have been guided by divine inspiration to discover and translate a text, ‘The Book of Mormon’, telling the story of a group of Hebrews migrating to America in c600 b.c., which provides the basis on which the church is founded, and is accepted by its members as Scripture in addition to the Bible.In 1847, under Smith's successor, Brigham Young (1801–77), the headquarters of the church were moved from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah, where they are still situated.The doctrine of the church emphasizes tithing, missionary work, and the Second Coming of Christ.The word does not occur in the first reference for the noun ( Massachusetts Spy, 22 Dec. 1830) cited by the Supplement to the O.E.D. (1976), where it was added by a secondary source.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > Mormon

Mormonite1831

Mormon1833

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mormonism > [noun] > person

Mormonite1831

Mormon1833

Mormonist1833

1833 Louisville (Kentucky) Daily Herald 22 Nov. (heading) The Mormons and the Anti-Mormons.

1837 J. M. Peck Gazetteer Illinois (ed. 2) 1. 74 There are..a few Mormons..scattered through the state.

1842 H. Caswall City of Mormons 34 I begged him to inform me whether the Mormons believed in the Trinity.

1881 W. G. Marshall Through Amer. viii. 184 Considerable disgrace attaches to a Mormon if he lives a bachelor life.

1904 Daily Chron. 5 Mar. 4/6 Mormons who were (plurally) married before polygamy was made illegal.

1949 Chicago Daily News 16 June 18/3 The prettiest girls in America are to be found among the Mormons of Salt Lake City.

1990 L. Picknett Encycl. Paranormal 58/1 Today 5.4 million members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormons, believe that theirs is the only Christian Church authorised by God.

2. allusively. With reference to the doctrine of plural marriage, accepted and practised by Mormons, which was officially abandoned in 1890.

ΚΠ

1906 Spectator 3 Feb. 175/2 In distinction from the barnyard duck, who is a regular Mormon, the mallard is monogamous.

1922 Lit. Digest 10 June 40/1 Because a few of the inmates of the Hollywood film colony have ‘married from time to time’, they are less to be censured as Mormons than pitied as morons.

1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose i. 26 Muses Nine, Those strapping girls whose love, to say the least, Would make a rabid Mormon of a priest.

B. adj.

That is a Mormon; of, relating to, or characteristic of Mormons.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mormonism > [adjective]

Mormon1833

Mormonite1833

Mormonish1846

1833 Evening Star (Kirtland, Ohio) Dec. 235/1 A small party of men..proceeded out to the Mormon settlement.

1838 Niles' Reg. 13 Oct. 103/3 We, and all the Mormon church,..entertain the same feelings and fears toward the Indians.

1842 H. Caswall City of Mormons 6 Houses..occupied, I was told, by Mormon emigrants.

1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet III. xii. 245 The whole of Texas becomes Mormon.

1884 J. Hall Christian Home 42 We have on the one side the Mormon problem to face, and on the other the divorce problem.

1913 J. London Valley of Moon 430 He had been provost marshal when the Mormon trouble flared up.

1942 W. Stegner Mormon Country 65 He had sprung clear across the Great Basin deserts to locate the Mormon Station.

1948 [see Mormon Church n. at Compounds].

1968 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 795/2 Space, time, matter and the universe in Mormon theology are limitless by nature.

1985 Buzz Feb. 51/3 This same mistake undergirds the Mormon belief that Christ will return to the city of Independence, Missouri, rather than the Mount of Olives.

Compounds

Mormon battalion n. now historical a company of soldiers from Mormon communities in Iowa enlisted for service in the Mexican war.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > American

Pennsylvania division1779

blue hen's chicken (also chick)1840

Mormon battalion1847

teddy1917

1847 T. H. Benton Let. 14 June in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1973) II. 365 The two arriving with the Mormon battalion after the events, the question of authorship is narrowed down to those two.

1947 J. S. Perry Cities of Amer. 36 The first detachment of the Mormon Battalion that had marched 2,000 miles to help in the Mexican War, and whose pay allotments had materially helped the Western migration.

2001 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 3 June d5 Melissa Coray Peak is named after the wife of a Mormon Battalion soldier.

Mormon Bible n. the Book of Mormon (see sense A. 1).

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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > Mormon book

Mormon Bible1838

1838 J. G. Whittier in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1885) II. 221 A discussion of the merits of animal magnetism, or of the Mormon Bible, would have been quite as appropriate.

1845 Southern Literary Messenger 11 476/1 These facts were withheld from the world for the nine years which intervened from the first publication of the Mormon Bible.

1882 J. W. Buel Metrop. Life Unveiled 349 These three men have subscribed to an oath which will be found in all Mormon bibles.

Mormon Church n. the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (see sense A. 1).

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mormonism > [noun] > person > collective

Latter-day Saint1832

Mormon Church1838

Mormondom1845

Mormonry1930

1838Mormon church [see sense B.].

1948 Newsweek 12 Jan. 38/2 Once a basic tenet of the Mormon Church, the doctrine of plural marriage was formally abandoned in 1890.

1992 D. Morgan Rising in West iii. xxiv. 473 KNLB-FM, located in a building adjacent to his Christian preschool on property acquired from the Mormon Church.

Mormon City n. Salt Lake City, Utah.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in North America > Salt Lake City

Mormon City1854

1854 De Bow's Rev. Apr. 376 There, in the centre of the Great Valley, would he send forth missionaries, who should penetrate to its remotest bounds, and gather in thousands of disciples to the Mormon City.

1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds 39 We got to the Mormon City all beat out.

1996 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 25 Nov. 10 We're in Utah. We're not someplace sunny and warm. We're in the Mormon City.

Mormon cricket n. a bush cricket, Anabrus simplex, of the western United States, which is destructive to cereal crops.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Tettigoniidae > member of > anabrus simplex (Mormon cricket)

Mormon cricket1896

1896 J. B. Smith Econ. Entomol. iv. 97 At the base of the Rocky Mountains, extending up into the foothills..the ‘Mormon cricket’, Anabrus simplex, occasionally multiplies so greatly that it migrates to the plains below, destroying everything in its path.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 1 May 13/1 The devastating ‘mormon’ crickets, which came into prominence in 1848, when they threatened the first colonists in Utah with starvation... Black creatures two inches long when full grown, they eat everything in sight.

1959 E. Tunis Indians 109/1 Grasshoppers and big mormon crickets were driven into trenches from which they could be gathered in baskets.

1986 New Yorker 3 Mar. 66/3 Over the decades..he completely circumambulated the skyline of Jackson Hole, camping where darkness came upon him, casting grasshoppers or Mormon crickets to catch his dinner.

Mormon fly n. U.S. regional a mayfly.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Hesperidae > genus Atrytone > atrytone hobomok

Mormon fly1845

1845 N. F. Moore Diary 26 Aug. (1946) 46 Our boat and everything about it is now covered with Mormon flies as they are called, being, I am told, peculiar to this neighborhood.

1847 C. Lanman Summer in Wilderness v. 34 They are called the Mormon fly and I was told were found on these rapids alone.

1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River 29 Out in the street..the smell of melting tar and squashed Mormon flies filled the air.

1983 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 12 July 2/1 The flies, also known as mayflies and Mormon flies, infest the river towns annually.

Mormon state n. a U.S. state whose population is predominantly Mormon; spec. Utah.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Utah

Mormon state1849

1849 Southern Q. Rev. Oct. 89 They are now clamorous for a territorial government, and seem inclined to form a Mormon State.

1893 L. Wagner More about Names 35 Utah, otherwise The Mormon State, is called by the Mormons themselves Deseret.

1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 640 Utah calls itself the Beehive State,..but the designation Mormon State is far more popular, and seems likely to stick.

1999 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Apr. 12 But this [sc. Utah] is still a Mormon state, with something like 75 per cent of its two million population members of the church.

Mormon trail n. the trail followed by Mormon migrants to Utah in 1847 (later established as a heritage trail).

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > followed by Mormon migrants

Mormon trail1850

1850 Ann. Iowa (1910) 3rd Ser. 9 453 Here we struck the old Mormon trail.

1868 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy May 631 The post route..changed partly to the old Mormon trail.

1949 Kansas Hist. Q. Feb. 39 The War Department decided..to improve the Mormon trail from Omaha as far as New Fort Kearney.

1998 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 14 Jan. a1 There will be no evidence of last year's authentic re-enactment of the Mormon Trail wagon train on public lands.

Mormon war n. any of several armed conflicts involving Mormon forces; spec. that between Utah Mormons and the U.S. army sent to establish federal rule in 1857–8.

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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war

Punic War1556

Vandal war1613

American Civil War1775

Seven Years War1775

Revolutionary Wara1784

Peninsular war1811

Great War1815

Mormon war1833

opium war1841

the Thirty Years' War1841

the Thirty Years' War1842

Mexican War1846

Napoleonic War1850

Crimean War1854

Hundred Years War1874

Balkan war1881

Boer War1883

Winter War1939

Six Day War1967

Yom Kippur War1973

Gulf War1981

Falklands conflict1982

1833 Evening Star (Kirtland, Ohio) Dec. 235/1 (heading) The Mormon War.

1846 Quincy (Illinois) Whig 3 Feb. 2/4 He was a Major in the last ‘Mormon War’.

a1918 G. Stuart 40 Years on Frontier (1925) I. 121 The best thing we could do would be to..come back in the spring, as the Mormon war would probably be over then.

1995 Denver Post (Nexis) 9 May b7 The Mormon War is worth remembering because..‘their rebellion flared and was resolved without anyone on either side discharging a gun’.

Mormon weed n. U.S. the Indian mallow, Abutilon theophrasti.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > mallow flowers

abutilon1578

yellow mallow1597

Indian mallow1699

lavatera1731

modesty1809

butter print1872

Mormon weed1872

old maid1880

1872 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1871 9 p. ix The Indian Mallow (Abutilon Avacennae), variously known as ‘stamp weed,’ ‘velvet leaf’, ‘butter print,’ ‘Mormon weed,’ etc.

1907 A. B. Lyons Plant Names (ed. 2) 8 Abutilon... American Hemp, Indian Hemp, Mormon-weed, Pie-marker, Pie-print, Sheep-weed.

1924 Amer. Botanist 30 108 We are at a loss to know the origin of..‘Mormon-weed’ also applied to our plant.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mormon
释义	Mormonn.adj. Brit. /ˈmɔːmən/, U.S. /ˈmɔrm(ə)n/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mormon. Etymology: < the name of Mormon, a prophet to whom Joseph Smith (1805–44), founder of the church, attributed ‘The Book of Mormon’. A. n. 1. A member or adherent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a millenary Christian sect founded in 1830 at Manchester, New York, by Joseph Smith.Smith claimed to have been guided by divine inspiration to discover and translate a text, ‘The Book of Mormon’, telling the story of a group of Hebrews migrating to America in c600 b.c., which provides the basis on which the church is founded, and is accepted by its members as Scripture in addition to the Bible.In 1847, under Smith's successor, Brigham Young (1801–77), the headquarters of the church were moved from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah, where they are still situated.The doctrine of the church emphasizes tithing, missionary work, and the Second Coming of Christ.The word does not occur in the first reference for the noun ( Massachusetts Spy, 22 Dec. 1830) cited by the Supplement to the O.E.D. (1976), where it was added by a secondary source. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > Mormon Mormonite1831 Mormon1833 society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mormonism > [noun] > person Mormonite1831 Mormon1833 Mormonist1833 1833 Louisville (Kentucky) Daily Herald 22 Nov. (heading) The Mormons and the Anti-Mormons. 1837 J. M. Peck Gazetteer Illinois (ed. 2) 1. 74 There are..a few Mormons..scattered through the state. 1842 H. Caswall City of Mormons 34 I begged him to inform me whether the Mormons believed in the Trinity. 1881 W. G. Marshall Through Amer. viii. 184 Considerable disgrace attaches to a Mormon if he lives a bachelor life. 1904 Daily Chron. 5 Mar. 4/6 Mormons who were (plurally) married before polygamy was made illegal. 1949 Chicago Daily News 16 June 18/3 The prettiest girls in America are to be found among the Mormons of Salt Lake City. 1990 L. Picknett Encycl. Paranormal 58/1 Today 5.4 million members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormons, believe that theirs is the only Christian Church authorised by God. 2. allusively. With reference to the doctrine of plural marriage, accepted and practised by Mormons, which was officially abandoned in 1890. ΚΠ 1906 Spectator 3 Feb. 175/2 In distinction from the barnyard duck, who is a regular Mormon, the mallard is monogamous. 1922 Lit. Digest 10 June 40/1 Because a few of the inmates of the Hollywood film colony have ‘married from time to time’, they are less to be censured as Mormons than pitied as morons. 1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose i. 26 Muses Nine, Those strapping girls whose love, to say the least, Would make a rabid Mormon of a priest. B. adj. That is a Mormon; of, relating to, or characteristic of Mormons. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mormonism > [adjective] Mormon1833 Mormonite1833 Mormonish1846 1833 Evening Star (Kirtland, Ohio) Dec. 235/1 A small party of men..proceeded out to the Mormon settlement. 1838 Niles' Reg. 13 Oct. 103/3 We, and all the Mormon church,..entertain the same feelings and fears toward the Indians. 1842 H. Caswall City of Mormons 6 Houses..occupied, I was told, by Mormon emigrants. 1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet III. xii. 245 The whole of Texas becomes Mormon. 1884 J. Hall Christian Home 42 We have on the one side the Mormon problem to face, and on the other the divorce problem. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon 430 He had been provost marshal when the Mormon trouble flared up. 1942 W. Stegner Mormon Country 65 He had sprung clear across the Great Basin deserts to locate the Mormon Station. 1948 [see Mormon Church n. at Compounds]. 1968 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 795/2 Space, time, matter and the universe in Mormon theology are limitless by nature. 1985 Buzz Feb. 51/3 This same mistake undergirds the Mormon belief that Christ will return to the city of Independence, Missouri, rather than the Mount of Olives. Compounds Mormon battalion n. now historical a company of soldiers from Mormon communities in Iowa enlisted for service in the Mexican war. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > American Pennsylvania division1779 blue hen's chicken (also chick)1840 Mormon battalion1847 teddy1917 1847 T. H. Benton Let. 14 June in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1973) II. 365 The two arriving with the Mormon battalion after the events, the question of authorship is narrowed down to those two. 1947 J. S. Perry Cities of Amer. 36 The first detachment of the Mormon Battalion that had marched 2,000 miles to help in the Mexican War, and whose pay allotments had materially helped the Western migration. 2001 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 3 June d5 Melissa Coray Peak is named after the wife of a Mormon Battalion soldier. Mormon Bible n. the Book of Mormon (see sense A. 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > Mormon book Mormon Bible1838 1838 J. G. Whittier in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1885) II. 221 A discussion of the merits of animal magnetism, or of the Mormon Bible, would have been quite as appropriate. 1845 Southern Literary Messenger 11 476/1 These facts were withheld from the world for the nine years which intervened from the first publication of the Mormon Bible. 1882 J. W. Buel Metrop. Life Unveiled 349 These three men have subscribed to an oath which will be found in all Mormon bibles. Mormon Church n. the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (see sense A. 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Mormonism > [noun] > person > collective Latter-day Saint1832 Mormon Church1838 Mormondom1845 Mormonry1930 1838Mormon church [see sense B.]. 1948 Newsweek 12 Jan. 38/2 Once a basic tenet of the Mormon Church, the doctrine of plural marriage was formally abandoned in 1890. 1992 D. Morgan Rising in West iii. xxiv. 473 KNLB-FM, located in a building adjacent to his Christian preschool on property acquired from the Mormon Church. Mormon City n. Salt Lake City, Utah. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in North America > Salt Lake City Mormon City1854 1854 De Bow's Rev. Apr. 376 There, in the centre of the Great Valley, would he send forth missionaries, who should penetrate to its remotest bounds, and gather in thousands of disciples to the Mormon City. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds 39 We got to the Mormon City all beat out. 1996 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 25 Nov. 10 We're in Utah. We're not someplace sunny and warm. We're in the Mormon City. Mormon cricket n. a bush cricket, Anabrus simplex, of the western United States, which is destructive to cereal crops. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Tettigoniidae > member of > anabrus simplex (Mormon cricket) Mormon cricket1896 1896 J. B. Smith Econ. Entomol. iv. 97 At the base of the Rocky Mountains, extending up into the foothills..the ‘Mormon cricket’, Anabrus simplex, occasionally multiplies so greatly that it migrates to the plains below, destroying everything in its path. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 1 May 13/1 The devastating ‘mormon’ crickets, which came into prominence in 1848, when they threatened the first colonists in Utah with starvation... Black creatures two inches long when full grown, they eat everything in sight. 1959 E. Tunis Indians 109/1 Grasshoppers and big mormon crickets were driven into trenches from which they could be gathered in baskets. 1986 New Yorker 3 Mar. 66/3 Over the decades..he completely circumambulated the skyline of Jackson Hole, camping where darkness came upon him, casting grasshoppers or Mormon crickets to catch his dinner. Mormon fly n. U.S. regional a mayfly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Hesperidae > genus Atrytone > atrytone hobomok Mormon fly1845 1845 N. F. Moore Diary 26 Aug. (1946) 46 Our boat and everything about it is now covered with Mormon flies as they are called, being, I am told, peculiar to this neighborhood. 1847 C. Lanman Summer in Wilderness v. 34 They are called the Mormon fly and I was told were found on these rapids alone. 1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River 29 Out in the street..the smell of melting tar and squashed Mormon flies filled the air. 1983 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 12 July 2/1 The flies, also known as mayflies and Mormon flies, infest the river towns annually. Mormon state n. a U.S. state whose population is predominantly Mormon; spec. Utah. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Utah Mormon state1849 1849 Southern Q. Rev. Oct. 89 They are now clamorous for a territorial government, and seem inclined to form a Mormon State. 1893 L. Wagner More about Names 35 Utah, otherwise The Mormon State, is called by the Mormons themselves Deseret. 1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 640 Utah calls itself the Beehive State,..but the designation Mormon State is far more popular, and seems likely to stick. 1999 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Apr. 12 But this [sc. Utah] is still a Mormon state, with something like 75 per cent of its two million population members of the church. Mormon trail n. the trail followed by Mormon migrants to Utah in 1847 (later established as a heritage trail). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > followed by Mormon migrants Mormon trail1850 1850 Ann. Iowa (1910) 3rd Ser. 9 453 Here we struck the old Mormon trail. 1868 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy May 631 The post route..changed partly to the old Mormon trail. 1949 Kansas Hist. Q. Feb. 39 The War Department decided..to improve the Mormon trail from Omaha as far as New Fort Kearney. 1998 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 14 Jan. a1 There will be no evidence of last year's authentic re-enactment of the Mormon Trail wagon train on public lands. Mormon war n. any of several armed conflicts involving Mormon forces; spec. that between Utah Mormons and the U.S. army sent to establish federal rule in 1857–8. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 1833 Evening Star (Kirtland, Ohio) Dec. 235/1 (heading) The Mormon War. 1846 Quincy (Illinois) Whig 3 Feb. 2/4 He was a Major in the last ‘Mormon War’. a1918 G. Stuart 40 Years on Frontier (1925) I. 121 The best thing we could do would be to..come back in the spring, as the Mormon war would probably be over then. 1995 Denver Post (Nexis) 9 May b7 The Mormon War is worth remembering because..‘their rebellion flared and was resolved without anyone on either side discharging a gun’. Mormon weed n. U.S. the Indian mallow, Abutilon theophrasti. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > mallow flowers abutilon1578 yellow mallow1597 Indian mallow1699 lavatera1731 modesty1809 butter print1872 Mormon weed1872 old maid1880 1872 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1871 9 p. ix The Indian Mallow (Abutilon Avacennae), variously known as ‘stamp weed,’ ‘velvet leaf’, ‘butter print,’ ‘Mormon weed,’ etc. 1907 A. B. Lyons Plant Names (ed. 2) 8 Abutilon... American Hemp, Indian Hemp, Mormon-weed, Pie-marker, Pie-print, Sheep-weed. 1924 Amer. Botanist 30 108 We are at a loss to know the origin of..‘Mormon-weed’ also applied to our plant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1833
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