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▪ I. † hepatite1 Obs.|ˈhɛpətaɪt|
Also 4 epetite.
[ad. L. hēpatītis, a. Gr. ἡπατῖτις.]
An early name for a precious stone (hepatitis gemma Pliny) said to resemble the liver in some respect.
c1305Land Cokayne 94 in E.E.P. (1862) 158 Chalcedun and epetite. 1601Holland Pliny II. 630 Some [stones] there be which bear the names of certain members of the body; as for example, Hepatites, of the liuer. 1706Phillips, Hepatites, a precious Stone of the shape of the Liver.
▪ II. hepatite2 Min.
[Named by Karsten, 1800 (Hepatit), from the older name lapis hepaticus.]
A name applied to varieties of Barytes emitting a fetid, sulphurous, or hepatic odour when rubbed or heated; liver-stone.
1802–3tr. Pallas' Trav. (1812) I. 145 They form cavities..filled up with dun hepatite of the spath kind. 1816R. Jameson Syst. Min. (ed. 2) II. 288 It is named hepatite from the disagreeable sulphureous odour it exhales when rubbed. |