asphaltic
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asphaltic (comparative more asphaltic, superlative most asphaltic)
- Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt or bitumen.
- Synonym: bituminous
- asphaltic concrete; asphaltic sediment
- 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 293-298:
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, Canto 4, lines 275-276, in The Botanic Garden, London: J. Johnson, p. 166,[2]
- On mouldering piles amid asphaltic mud [the pilgrim]
- Hears the hoarse bittern, where Gomorrah stood;
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 8:
- […] the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,
- (obsolete) Of or relating to the Dead Sea (salt lake between Jordan and Israel).[1]
- 1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas[4], London: R. Dodsley, Book 3, lines 349-354, p. 93:
- […] who gather from the fragrant shrub
The aromatic balsam, and extract
Its milky juice along the lovely side
Of winding Jordan, till immers’d it sleep
Beneath the pitchy surface, which obscures
Th’ Asphaltic lake.
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- ^ Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 1661: Asphaltick, Of or belonging to the dead Sea, or Lake called Asphaltites, nigh which once stood the infamous Cities of Sodom and Gomorrha.[1]