mineralogicadj.
/ˌmɪn(ə)rəˈlɒdʒɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌmɪn(ə)rəˈlɑdʒɪk/ = mineralogical adj.
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mineralogical1653
oryctognostic1794
oryctognostical1805
mineralogic1811
oryctographical1857
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 242 The description of the latter has been given by several mineralogic authors.
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 129 Saxony, the very focus of mineralogic knowledge.
1851 Southern Literary Messenger Apr. 242/2 If things go on at this rate, in a few years we can find it [sc. gold] only as the choicest specimen in some mineralogic collection.
1942 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 13 323/1 The work of these students includes such tasks as..map-making, labeling and rearranging geologic and mineralogic collections, [etc.].
1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xxi. 560 A mineralogic analysis.
1992 Earth July 15/1 The scientists collected approximately 1,000 samples for microscopic, mineralogic, chemical, and physical analyses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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