单词 | marmoreous |
释义 | † marmoreousadj. Obsolete. rare. = marmoreal adj.The correct reading in quot. 1688 is doubtful: see also marmoraceous adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [adjective] > marble marblea1382 Pentelic1579 marblya1620 marmoreous1709 Pentelician1741 picturesque1762 marmoraceous1822 Pentelican1850 Lucullan1857 Connemara1861 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 313/1 Marmoceous, a Marble colour, a black blue.] 1709 W. King Useful Trans. in Philos. Jan.–Feb. 13 These mountains seem to be nothing else but a composition of such hard Rockey, Marmoreous, Flinty,..and in a word, Mountanous Matter, as the Deluge could not carry away. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II .] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1709 |
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