Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for NEP-TU'NI-AN, or NEP'TU-NIST
NEP-TU'NI-AN, or NEP'TU-NIST, n.
One who adopts the theory that the whole earth was once covered with water, or rather that the substances of the globe were former from aqueous solution; opposed to the Plutonic theory. Pinkerton. Good.
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