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cineritious, a.|sɪnəˈrɪʃəs|
Also 7 -cious.
[f. L. cinerici-us, -tius ashy, like ashes + -ous.]
1. Ash-coloured, ashen-gray; in Anat. used of the ‘gray-matter’ of the brain and spinal cord.
1686in Phil. Trans. XVI. 230 Very little of the cineritious Colour to be seen. 1697Ibid. XIX. 534 Whether I did distinguish the Cinericious and Medullary Substances. 1791Pearson in Phil. Trans. LXXXI. 353 A light grey or cineritious heavy powder. 1840G. Ellis Anat. 35 A medullary nucleus..enveloped by the grey or cineritious matter.
2. Of the nature of ashes or cinders.
1732P. Delany Revelation II. 226 (R.) Broken and burnt rocks, ruins of buildings, and cineritious earth. 1782Misc. in Ann. Reg. 172/1 The soil of the plain is cineritious. 1803G. S. Faber Cabiri II. 389 No cineritious remains are visible..and..there are no marks of cremation in the cave. 1831Fraser's Mag. III. 337 Grey, sad, and cineritious. |