schistusn.

Forms: Also 1800s shistus, 1600s in Greek form schistos.

Etymology: modern Latin; see schist n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈschistus.

Obsolete.

= schist n.¹

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > schist

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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxv. xv. 558 Of alume..there is one kind which the Greeks call Schistos, and the nature thereof is to cleave along into certaine filaments or threads like haires.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Schistos, a stone of Saffron colour, easie to be cleft into thin plates.

1674 M. Lister Let. 20 Nov. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1977) XI. 131 Of the many sorts of stones I therein had, divers escaped but not any of the Haematites kind, having therein Manganes, Scistos, botryades, &c.]

1775 F. Masson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 306 A kind of rotten schistus or slate.

1799 Monthly Rev. 30 12 Micaceous shistus, granite, gneiss, chlorite-shistus, sand-stone, and lime-stone.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xiv. 115 Take a plate of regularly formed mother-of-pearl, with its surfaces nearly parallel, and grind these surfaces upon a hone or upon a plate of glass with the powder of schistus.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	schistus
释义	schistusn. Forms: Also 1800s shistus, 1600s in Greek form schistos. Etymology: modern Latin; see schist n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈschistus. Obsolete. = schist n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > schist schistus1775 schist1793 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxv. xv. 558 Of alume..there is one kind which the Greeks call Schistos, and the nature thereof is to cleave along into certaine filaments or threads like haires. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Schistos, a stone of Saffron colour, easie to be cleft into thin plates. 1674 M. Lister Let. 20 Nov. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1977) XI. 131 Of the many sorts of stones I therein had, divers escaped but not any of the Haematites kind, having therein Manganes, Scistos, botryades, &c.] 1775 F. Masson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 306 A kind of rotten schistus or slate. 1799 Monthly Rev. 30 12 Micaceous shistus, granite, gneiss, chlorite-shistus, sand-stone, and lime-stone. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xiv. 115 Take a plate of regularly formed mother-of-pearl, with its surfaces nearly parallel, and grind these surfaces upon a hone or upon a plate of glass with the powder of schistus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1775
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