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oceanic jade
b. jadeite, a silicate of sodium and aluminium, closely resembling nephrite in appearance. Sometimes also applied to saussurite n. oceanic jade, oriental jade (see quots. 18811, 18812).
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1569 N. Monardes Cosas de las Indias sig. Fvv (heading) De la piedra de la Yjada.
1569 N. Monardes Cosas de las Indias sig. Fviiv Tiene esta piedra por propriedad oculta,..de preseruar que no caygan en el dolor de la yjada.]
1595 W. Raleigh Discov. Guiana 24 A kinde of greene stones, which the Spaniards call Piedras Hijadas, and we vse for spleene stones.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Iada, a kinde of precious stone like an emerauld.
1633 Voiture Wks., Let. to Mdle. Paulet (1665) 47 Ainsi pour ce coup, l'Ejade a eu pour vous vn effet que vous n'attendiez pas d'elle.]
1657 J. Davies tr. V. de Voiture Lett. i. xxiv. 37 So that for this time, L'Ejade hath had for you an effect which you expected not from it.
1657 J. Davies tr. V. de Voiture Lett. i. xlii. 79 I perceive there must be found out for me some more substantial remedies than the Ejade [printed Ejacle].
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Jade, a greenish Stone, bordering on the Colour of Olive, much esteem'd for its Hardness... This Stone applied to the Reins, is said to be a Preservative from the Nephritic Cholic.1751 J. Hill Hist. Materia Medica iv. 271 The Jade or Divine Stone..is a true Species of Jasper.1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 161 A piece of green nephritic stone, or jadde.1823 J. Rutter Delineations of Fonthill 51 A sceptre of jad, brought from China.1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 20 Here, also..hatchets and wedges of jade have been observed.1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 293 Jadeite is one of the kinds of pale stones used in China for making ornaments, and passing under the general name of jade or nephrite.1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 6 A third mineral, originally described by H. B. de Saussure as a jade, was termed Saussurite by T. de Saussure: this was the jade tenace of Haüy and the early French mineralogists.1881 F. W. Rudler in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 540/1 Under the name of ‘oceanic jade’, M. Damour has described a fibrous variety found in New Caledonia and in the Marquesas Islands..differing from ordinary nephrite in the proportion of lime and magnesia which it contains.1881 F. W. Rudler in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 540/2 If this oceanic jade be recognized as a distinct variety, the ordinary nephrite may be distinguished as ‘oriental jade’.
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