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▪ I. Laurentian, a.1 Geol.|lɒˈrɛnʃ(ɪ)ən|
[f. L. Laurenti-us Laurence + -an.]
A designation of certain sedimentary strata found in Canada near the river St. Lawrence. Also quasi-n. in collective sense.
1863A. C. Ramsay Phys. Geog. v. (1878) 55 The Laurentian rocks are the oldest formations at present known in the world. 1872W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks ii. 21 The Laurentian, or Basement, sedimentary deposits are divided into two series. 1875Dawson Dawn of Life vii. 176 The Lower Laurentian of Canada..is found to contain thick and widely distributed beds of limestone. 1876Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. x. 187 The Laurentian strata, till the year 1862, were regarded as metamorphic.
▪ II. Laurentian, a.2|lɒˈrɛnʃ(ɪ)ən|
[f. the name of Lorenzo (Laurentius) de' Medici, who founded a library in Florence in the 15th c.]
Of or pertaining to the Laurentian Library in Florence or to manuscripts preserved there. Cf. Medicean a.
1860Geo. Eliot Jrnl. in J. W. Gross George Eliot's Life (1885) II. x. 216 That unique Laurentian library, designed by Michael Angelo. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 438/2 His [sc. Michelangelo's] principal works are..the Laurentian Library at Florence. 1879Ibid. IX. 332/1 There are three large and valuable libraries in the city [sc. Florence]... The Laurentian, founded by Lorenzo de' Medici, and attached to the convent of San Lorenzo. 1883R. C. Jebb in Sophocles, Plays & Fragments I. p. liii, The manuscripts..used..are the following: In the Biblioteca Mediceo-Lorenziana, Florence, L, cod. 32.9, commonly known as the Laurentian MS. 1936Greenhood & Gentry Chronol. Bks. & Printing (rev. ed.) 14, 1437. A public library is founded at Florence on a bequest by Niccoli; becomes known later as Laurentian Library, and today is oldest existing library in Europe. 1960G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 214/2 Laurentian Codex, an 11th-century codex of the works of Sophocles, Apollonius Rhodius, and Aeschylus... It is now in the Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, Florence.
▪ III. Laurentian
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