Neptuniann.adj.

Brit.

/nɛpˈtjuːnɪən/,

/nɛpˈtʃuːnɪən/, U.S.

/nɛpˈt(j)uniən/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Neptūnius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin Neptūnius of or relating to Neptune ( < Neptūnus Neptune n. + -ius , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix. Compare French neptunien , adjective (1606 in sense ‘relating to the sea god Neptune’, 1611 in Cotgrave in sense ‘relating to the sea’, 1814 or earlier in sense ‘relating to the geological theory of Neptunism’, 1824 or earlier in geology in sense ‘formed by the action of water’, 1880 in sense ‘relating to the planet Neptune’) and noun (1801 denoting an advocate of Neptunism in geology). With use as noun in geology compare also German Neputunier (1789 in this sense in the title of a work by Goethe). With sense A. 1 compare earlier Neptunist n.

A. n.

†1. = Neptunist n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]

shipmanc900

seamanOE

buscarlOE

shipperc1100

ship-gumec1275

marinerc1300

skipper1390

marinela1400

waterman1421

maryneller1470

seafarer1513

sea-fardingera1550

navigator1574

marinec1575

sailer1585

Triton1589

Neptunist1593

canvas-climber1609

sea-crab1609

tar-lubber1610

Neptunian1620

salt-rover1620

sailora1642

tarpaulin1647

otter1650

water dog1652

tarpauliana1656

Jack1659

tar1676

sea-animal1707

Jack tar1709

sailor-man1761

tarry-breeks1786

hearty1790

ocean-farera1806

tarry-jacket1822

Jacky1826

nautical1831

salt water1839

matelotc1847

knight of the tar-brush1866

main-yard man1867

gobby1883

tarry-John1888

blue jersey1889

lobscouser1889

flat-foot1897

handyman1899

1620 J. Taylor Praise of Hemp-seed 10 You braue Neptunians, you salt water crew, Sea-plowing Mariners; I speake to you.

2. Geology. = Neptunist n. 2. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > earth sciences > theory of formation of earth > theorist > [noun] > flood or aqueous

Neptunian1799

Neptunist1802

Wernerian1815

diluvialist1838

submarinist1868

1799 Monthly Mag. July 467/1 In general he was a Neptunian, that is to say, he attributed the changes the earth has undergone to the operation of water.

1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 591 Neptunians and Vulcanists, or Wernerians and Huttonians.

1858 Times 12 Oct. 7/4 At that period geologists were divided into Neptunians or Vulcanians, Wernerians or Hattonians [sic].

1896 Atlantic Monthly July 16/2 It was in 1786 that the publication of James Hutton's Theory of the Earth ushered in the great battle between Neptunians and Plutonists which prepared the way for scientific geology.

1926 N.E.D. at Wernerian sb. A supporter of Werner's theory; a Neptunian.

1956 Isis 60 443 The neptunians thought in terms of formations precipitated in concentric layers from a global sea like the layers of an onion.

1988 Isis 79 330/1 Gohau's insightful remarks on the incompletely historical sensibilities of universalist neptunians such as..Deluc and Werner.

3. An (imagined or hypothetical) inhabitant of the planet Neptune.

ΚΠ

1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours 173 The Neptunians would be wholly unable to see Uranus.

1910 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 4/1 Supposing this comet passes anywhere near Neptune..and there were inhabitants on Neptune, I wonder how it would appear to those Neptunians?

1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xv. 209 Mary and Julius emerged with the supreme British condescension of Jovians or Neptunians visiting a minor planet.

1990 Amer. Statistician 44 136/2 The year 2089 finds biostatistics alive and well... Groups of patients..shown to yield unreliable data in clinical trials: patients from Pluto..; and Neptunians who work for the telephone company.

2003 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 1 Sept. Phaethon suspects the huge, cold, squidlike Neptunian of being an agent of the Nothing Sophotect, an artificial intelligence representing the Silent Oecumene set up by rebels.

B. adj.

1. Relating or belonging to or resembling the sea-god Neptune; (hence) relating to the sea or to water. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective]

floodyc1420

marine?1440

seaish1530

maritime1610

marinal1614

Neptunianc1620

aequoreal1647

thalassian1851

thalassic1860

sea-air1945

the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Neptune

Neptunianc1620

tridented1624

tridental1635

trident-bearing1749

trident-armed1866

c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i.xxv. 238 Curlinge y^e flaggy lockes of the Neptunian plaine.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Neptunian, belonging to that Sea-God, or to the Sea.

1684 J. Harington tr. Horace Odes & Epodon 107 When shall I Drink with thee,..as late We drank, when that Neptunian Chief, Sea-curst, Fled.

a1700 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses (1717) 410 Neptunian Cygnus Troops of Greeks had slain; Achilles in his Carr had scour'd the Plain, And clear'd the Trojan Ranks: Where-e'er he fought, Cygnus, or Hector, through the Fields he sought.

1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 43 Neptunian Albion's high testaceous food.

a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) i. x. 254 Their mortal state Neptunian pity to immortal chang'd; From Ino she became Leucothea, chief Among the nymphs of Tethys.

1848 G. B. Cheever Wanderings Pilgrim xxxiii. 204 A social Neptunian pic-nic of this sort.

1882 J. A. Symonds in Cornhill Mag. 45 in L. A. Smith Music of Waters (1888) 187 Piero, whose rugged Neptunian features, sea-wrinkled, tell of a rough water-life, boasts a bass of resonant, almost pathetic quality.

1935 Sci. Monthly Nov. 395/2 We sail away..; we cross the equatorial line, while foolish mummers profane the ancient Neptunian rites.

1975 P. G. Winslow Death of Angel vi. 137 Stay away from all Neptunian matters. Don't go near water.

1994 Scentsitivity (Nexis) Autumn 4 If you are interested in turning back the clock on your skin, a seaweed body treatment is a most pleasurable way to do so. Never mind that you will look like a human sushi roll while your body is enrobed in the Neptunian nutrients.

2. Geology.

a. Produced by or involving the action of water, esp. in the sea. Now chiefly in neptunian dyke n. at Compounds .

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [adjective] > by water or ice

Neptunian1774

aqueous1802

diluvial1816

neptunean1843

neptunic1851

torrential1861

fluviolacustrine1864

hydrogenous1889

aqueo-glacial1892

fluvio-glacial1894

solution1894

paralic1914

1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 374 The stones and gravel..along the western shore of the island..are impelled forwards by the impetuosity of the ocean, and there left in repose. The progress of this neptunian process is very curious.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 425 Mountains of Neptunian origin are distinguished by their materials.

1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 2 379 How difficult it is to distinguish between ignigenous and Neptunian formations.

1853 R. J. Nelson in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 9 201 They [sc. the Bermudas] may be placed..as a peculiar post-tertiary formation of a composite character..Neptunian below and ‘Æolian’ above.

1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 194 Layers of trap, alternating with Neptunian beds.

1942 Ecol. Monogr. 12 137/1 Sand is..only 2.5 times heavier than water; so waves..can carry larger and heavier bits than can wind... Dunes are eolian deposits;..they consist of smaller grains of sand than neptunian strands along wave-beaten shores.

1998 Sedimentary Geol. 118 95 Growth and seismic faults affected the mounds and created Neptunian cracks and crevices, quickly filled with sedimentary material (pisoids) and cements (Neptunian dykes and veins).

b. Of, relating to, or advocating Neptunism. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > earth sciences > theory of formation of earth > [adjective] > flood or aqueous

Neptunian1798

Wernerian1811

Neptunist1863

1798 in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1799) 4 440 The Neptunian theory of geogeny has now very generally taken place [of] the old volcanic system, and, as far as conjecture and hypothesis can forward science, it is certainly more generally applicable.

1802 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 206 A destruction of the primitive mountains..is deducible from the Neptunian..hypothesis.

1886 T. S. Hunt Mineral Physiol. & Physiogr. v. 76 The extreme neptunian views of Werner, however, soon fell into disfavor.

1945 Amer. Lit. 17 52 Melville perhaps was parodying here the rival Plutonian and Neptunian theories.

1992 A. Desmond & J. Moore Darwin 41 Jameson was famous as a ‘Neptunian’ geologist: he taught that the rock strata had been precipitated from a universal ocean.

3. Of or relating to the planet Neptune.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [adjective] > Neptune

Neptunian1849

1849 E. A. Poe in Godey's Lady's Bk. Feb. 137/2 A fine view of the five Neptunian asteroids.

1885 A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 114 No further Neptunian or Uranian satellites can be perceived.

1938 Science 2 Sept. 205/2 In this Neptunian methane we have a paraffin certainly not of animal or vegetable origin.

1989 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 7/1 It orbits the Sun so slowly that a Neptunian year lasts 165 Earth-years.

1992 S. S. Hall Mapping Next Millenium (1993) i. 48 A picture of the Neptunian moon 1989 N2 popped up, square in the middle of the TV screen.

Compounds

neptunian dyke n. Geology a deposit of sand or other clastic rock cutting through sedimentary strata in the manner of an igneous dyke, formed by the filling of an undersea fissure; also called neptunic dyke.

ΚΠ

1948 Geol. Mag. 85 276 During the Easter Field Meeting of the Sedgwick Club, portions of the Neptunian dyke at Hazler Hill..were collected and brought back to Cambridge for further examination.

1974 Nature 29 Nov. 376/1 Other features at and just below this weathered surface include neptunian dykes.

1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field viii. 170 Neptunian dykes can be large or very thin and may pass into bedding parallel ‘sills’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	neptunian
释义	Neptuniann.adj. Brit. /nɛpˈtjuːnɪən/, /nɛpˈtʃuːnɪən/, U.S. /nɛpˈt(j)uniən/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Neptūnius , -an suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin Neptūnius of or relating to Neptune ( < Neptūnus Neptune n. + -ius , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix. Compare French neptunien , adjective (1606 in sense ‘relating to the sea god Neptune’, 1611 in Cotgrave in sense ‘relating to the sea’, 1814 or earlier in sense ‘relating to the geological theory of Neptunism’, 1824 or earlier in geology in sense ‘formed by the action of water’, 1880 in sense ‘relating to the planet Neptune’) and noun (1801 denoting an advocate of Neptunism in geology). With use as noun in geology compare also German Neputunier (1789 in this sense in the title of a work by Goethe). With sense A. 1 compare earlier Neptunist n. A. n. †1. = Neptunist n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] shipmanc900 seamanOE buscarlOE shipperc1100 ship-gumec1275 marinerc1300 skipper1390 marinela1400 waterman1421 maryneller1470 seafarer1513 sea-fardingera1550 navigator1574 marinec1575 sailer1585 Triton1589 Neptunist1593 canvas-climber1609 sea-crab1609 tar-lubber1610 Neptunian1620 salt-rover1620 sailora1642 tarpaulin1647 otter1650 water dog1652 tarpauliana1656 Jack1659 tar1676 sea-animal1707 Jack tar1709 sailor-man1761 tarry-breeks1786 hearty1790 ocean-farera1806 tarry-jacket1822 Jacky1826 nautical1831 salt water1839 matelotc1847 knight of the tar-brush1866 main-yard man1867 gobby1883 tarry-John1888 blue jersey1889 lobscouser1889 flat-foot1897 handyman1899 1620 J. Taylor Praise of Hemp-seed 10 You braue Neptunians, you salt water crew, Sea-plowing Mariners; I speake to you. 2. Geology. = Neptunist n. 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > theory of formation of earth > theorist > [noun] > flood or aqueous Neptunian1799 Neptunist1802 Wernerian1815 diluvialist1838 submarinist1868 1799 Monthly Mag. July 467/1 In general he was a Neptunian, that is to say, he attributed the changes the earth has undergone to the operation of water. 1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 591 Neptunians and Vulcanists, or Wernerians and Huttonians. 1858 Times 12 Oct. 7/4 At that period geologists were divided into Neptunians or Vulcanians, Wernerians or Hattonians [sic]. 1896 Atlantic Monthly July 16/2 It was in 1786 that the publication of James Hutton's Theory of the Earth ushered in the great battle between Neptunians and Plutonists which prepared the way for scientific geology. 1926 N.E.D. at Wernerian sb. A supporter of Werner's theory; a Neptunian. 1956 Isis 60 443 The neptunians thought in terms of formations precipitated in concentric layers from a global sea like the layers of an onion. 1988 Isis 79 330/1 Gohau's insightful remarks on the incompletely historical sensibilities of universalist neptunians such as..Deluc and Werner. 3. An (imagined or hypothetical) inhabitant of the planet Neptune. ΚΠ 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours 173 The Neptunians would be wholly unable to see Uranus. 1910 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 4/1 Supposing this comet passes anywhere near Neptune..and there were inhabitants on Neptune, I wonder how it would appear to those Neptunians? 1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xv. 209 Mary and Julius emerged with the supreme British condescension of Jovians or Neptunians visiting a minor planet. 1990 Amer. Statistician 44 136/2 The year 2089 finds biostatistics alive and well... Groups of patients..shown to yield unreliable data in clinical trials: patients from Pluto..; and Neptunians who work for the telephone company. 2003 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 1 Sept. Phaethon suspects the huge, cold, squidlike Neptunian of being an agent of the Nothing Sophotect, an artificial intelligence representing the Silent Oecumene set up by rebels. B. adj. 1. Relating or belonging to or resembling the sea-god Neptune; (hence) relating to the sea or to water. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective] floodyc1420 marine?1440 seaish1530 maritime1610 marinal1614 Neptunianc1620 aequoreal1647 thalassian1851 thalassic1860 sea-air1945 the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Neptune Neptunianc1620 tridented1624 tridental1635 trident-bearing1749 trident-armed1866 c1620 T. Robinson Mary Magdalene (1899) i.xxv. 238 Curlinge y^e flaggy lockes of the Neptunian plaine. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Neptunian, belonging to that Sea-God, or to the Sea. 1684 J. Harington tr. Horace Odes & Epodon 107 When shall I Drink with thee,..as late We drank, when that Neptunian Chief, Sea-curst, Fled. a1700 J. Dryden in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses (1717) 410 Neptunian Cygnus Troops of Greeks had slain; Achilles in his Carr had scour'd the Plain, And clear'd the Trojan Ranks: Where-e'er he fought, Cygnus, or Hector, through the Fields he sought. 1740 J. Dyer Ruins of Rome 43 Neptunian Albion's high testaceous food. a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) i. x. 254 Their mortal state Neptunian pity to immortal chang'd; From Ino she became Leucothea, chief Among the nymphs of Tethys. 1848 G. B. Cheever Wanderings Pilgrim xxxiii. 204 A social Neptunian pic-nic of this sort. 1882 J. A. Symonds in Cornhill Mag. 45 in L. A. Smith Music of Waters (1888) 187 Piero, whose rugged Neptunian features, sea-wrinkled, tell of a rough water-life, boasts a bass of resonant, almost pathetic quality. 1935 Sci. Monthly Nov. 395/2 We sail away..; we cross the equatorial line, while foolish mummers profane the ancient Neptunian rites. 1975 P. G. Winslow Death of Angel vi. 137 Stay away from all Neptunian matters. Don't go near water. 1994 Scentsitivity (Nexis) Autumn 4 If you are interested in turning back the clock on your skin, a seaweed body treatment is a most pleasurable way to do so. Never mind that you will look like a human sushi roll while your body is enrobed in the Neptunian nutrients. 2. Geology. a. Produced by or involving the action of water, esp. in the sea. Now chiefly in neptunian dyke n. at Compounds . ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [adjective] > by water or ice Neptunian1774 aqueous1802 diluvial1816 neptunean1843 neptunic1851 torrential1861 fluviolacustrine1864 hydrogenous1889 aqueo-glacial1892 fluvio-glacial1894 solution1894 paralic1914 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 374 The stones and gravel..along the western shore of the island..are impelled forwards by the impetuosity of the ocean, and there left in repose. The progress of this neptunian process is very curious. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 425 Mountains of Neptunian origin are distinguished by their materials. 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 2 379 How difficult it is to distinguish between ignigenous and Neptunian formations. 1853 R. J. Nelson in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 9 201 They [sc. the Bermudas] may be placed..as a peculiar post-tertiary formation of a composite character..Neptunian below and ‘Æolian’ above. 1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 194 Layers of trap, alternating with Neptunian beds. 1942 Ecol. Monogr. 12 137/1 Sand is..only 2.5 times heavier than water; so waves..can carry larger and heavier bits than can wind... Dunes are eolian deposits;..they consist of smaller grains of sand than neptunian strands along wave-beaten shores. 1998 Sedimentary Geol. 118 95 Growth and seismic faults affected the mounds and created Neptunian cracks and crevices, quickly filled with sedimentary material (pisoids) and cements (Neptunian dykes and veins). b. Of, relating to, or advocating Neptunism. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > theory of formation of earth > [adjective] > flood or aqueous Neptunian1798 Wernerian1811 Neptunist1863 1798 in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1799) 4 440 The Neptunian theory of geogeny has now very generally taken place [of] the old volcanic system, and, as far as conjecture and hypothesis can forward science, it is certainly more generally applicable. 1802 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 206 A destruction of the primitive mountains..is deducible from the Neptunian..hypothesis. 1886 T. S. Hunt Mineral Physiol. & Physiogr. v. 76 The extreme neptunian views of Werner, however, soon fell into disfavor. 1945 Amer. Lit. 17 52 Melville perhaps was parodying here the rival Plutonian and Neptunian theories. 1992 A. Desmond & J. Moore Darwin 41 Jameson was famous as a ‘Neptunian’ geologist: he taught that the rock strata had been precipitated from a universal ocean. 3. Of or relating to the planet Neptune. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [adjective] > Neptune Neptunian1849 1849 E. A. Poe in Godey's Lady's Bk. Feb. 137/2 A fine view of the five Neptunian asteroids. 1885 A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 114 No further Neptunian or Uranian satellites can be perceived. 1938 Science 2 Sept. 205/2 In this Neptunian methane we have a paraffin certainly not of animal or vegetable origin. 1989 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 7/1 It orbits the Sun so slowly that a Neptunian year lasts 165 Earth-years. 1992 S. S. Hall Mapping Next Millenium (1993) i. 48 A picture of the Neptunian moon 1989 N2 popped up, square in the middle of the TV screen. Compounds neptunian dyke n. Geology a deposit of sand or other clastic rock cutting through sedimentary strata in the manner of an igneous dyke, formed by the filling of an undersea fissure; also called neptunic dyke. ΚΠ 1948 Geol. Mag. 85 276 During the Easter Field Meeting of the Sedgwick Club, portions of the Neptunian dyke at Hazler Hill..were collected and brought back to Cambridge for further examination. 1974 Nature 29 Nov. 376/1 Other features at and just below this weathered surface include neptunian dykes. 1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field viii. 170 Neptunian dykes can be large or very thin and may pass into bedding parallel ‘sills’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1620
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