shipwrights, and persons otherwise connected with the shipping interest". This entry also discusses Samuel Adams Jr.'s fondness for quoting Greek and Latin "after the pedantic fashion of the time", which might provide a context for a coinage with a Latin suffix.

Early usage

The Boston Gazette of May 5, 1760, includes an essay commenting:

The writer goes on to argue that the underhand attempts of this "New and

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