单词 | ophitic |
释义 | Ophiticadj.1 Church History. Of or belonging to the sect of the Ophites. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > major early Christian sects > Gnosticism > [adjective] > Serpentian ophic1659 Ophitic1865 1865 tr. D. F. Strauss New Life Jesus I. ii. xi. 84 Expressions..brought forward from an Ophitic work. 1867 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. (1872) v. 217 We find Ophitic Gnostics..appealing to passages in St. John's Gospel. 1908 S. M. Jackson New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. 244 The ophitic theology tends to separate this supreme God into an ever-increasing number of entities. 2000 P. Lagasse Columbia Encycl. 34726 One Ophitic hymn, the Hymn of the Naasenes, survives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ophiticadj.2 Geology. Characterized by or designating a rock structure in which crystals of feldspar are interposed between plates of augite.By some writers restricted to textures in which augite predominates and the feldspar laths do not in general touch each other. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [adjective] > ophitic ophitical1611 ophitic1870 hyalo-ophitic1920 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > texture or colour > [adjective] > texture > embedded crystals ophitical1611 ophitic1870 poikilitic1886 hyalopilitic1888 miarolitic1889 hyalo-ophitic1920 poikiloblastic1920 porphyroblastic1920 porphyroclastic1920 1870 Nature 14 July 209/1 Patches..are found here and there amongst the somewhat ophitic mass of granules and fibres. 1897 A. Geikie Anc. Volcanoes Brit. I. 21 A specially characteristic feature of many basic rocks is..what is termed an ophitic structure. 1938 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 229 26 It is an ophitic, ophimottled, augite-rich basalt, with phenocrysts of olivine, plagioclase and pyroxene. 1973 G. J. H. McCall Meteorites xiii. 174 (heading) Eucrite showing ophitic intergrowth of narrow plagioclase laths. 1990 C. Pellant Rocks, Minerals & Fossils 21/1 Ophitic texture is, however, common, with euhedral lath-shaped feldspars enclosed in pyroxene. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11865adj.21870 |
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