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▪ I. porphyrite, n.1|ˈpɔːfɪraɪt|
Also 6 -phirite, 7 -phyrit, -pherite.
[ad. L. porphyrītēs a purple-coloured precious stone in Egypt (Pliny), ad. Gr. πορϕυρίτης adj. like purple, π. λίθος stone of this colour, porphyry, f. πόρϕυρ-ος purple: see porphyr- and -ite1 b. So mod.F. porphyrite, in sense 2.]
†1. = porphyry 1. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xx. (Arb.) 254 Polishers of marble or porphirite. 1601Holland Pliny II. 579 A number of columns and statues there be, all of porphyrit or red marble. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 67 It was of Porphyrite, or Red Marble Stone.
attrib.1577Harrison England ii. xiii. (1877) i. 253 Some were of porphyrite stone. 1601Holland Pliny II. 573 The Porphyrite marble, which also commeth out of ægypt, is of a red colour. 1736Drake Eboracum i. ii. 14 His Ashes were collected, and..put into a Porphyrite Urn.
2. Min. A rock of porphyritic structure; a mass principally felsitic, containing also crystals of oligoclase (or sometimes orthoclase) felspar, and occasionally other minerals; = porphyry 3.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 358 That [porphyry] described by Herman..and which he calls a porphyrite. It consists of small sparks of felspar, grains of quartz, splinters of hornblende, and fragments of shorl cemented together by a scarcely discernible jaspidean cement. 1878Lawrence tr. Cotta's Rocks Class. 162 The porphyritye of the Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh, with crystals of oligoclase, and specular-iron, sparkling in a reddish-brown matrix. 1879Rutley Stud. Rocks xii. 238 The porphyrites are..divided into diorite and diabase-porphyrites.
▪ II. † porphyrite, a. (n.2) Obs. rare.
[ad. L. porphyrīt-is purple-coloured, a. Gr. πορϕυρῖτις.]
Purple-coloured. Also ellipt. as n.: see quot.
1601Holland Pliny I. 442 The Porphyrite Figs first shew upon the tree, and ordinarily be longest tailed. The smallest Figs..come next after and beare the Porphyrites companie. [1706Phillips, Porphyritis, a Fig of a purple Colour.] |