A mineral or someone associated with Hamline University; the term has limited modern usage.
From Hamline (relating to Leonidas Hamline) with the -ite suffix, commonly used in mineralogy to name minerals and also to denote membership in a group or place.
The -ite suffix in mineralogy and in creating gentilics (names for people from a place) shows how English reuses the same building blocks to create new meanings—it's linguistic efficiency in action.
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