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▪ I. † stroˈmatic, a.1 and n. Obs.
[f. Gr. στρώµατ-α (see below) + -ic.
Browne is really the sole authority for the word; the adj. was inferred by Blount from Browne's subst. use: Blount's reference to ‘Ben Johnson’ is presumably an error; it is omitted in the later edd.]
a. adj. (See quots. 1656, 1847–54.) rare—0.
b. n. In pl. stromatics, used by Browne to represent Gr. στρώµατα (more correctly στρωµατεῖς, lit. ‘patch-work quilts’), the title of a work by Clement of Alexandria.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. i. 277 Clemens Alexandrinus..in the first of his Stromaticks,..collecteth [etc.]. 1656Blount Glossogr., Stromatick..belonging to strowings, or any thing spread on the ground, or under a thing. Ben Johnson. 1847–54Webster, Stromatic, miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
▪ II. stromatic, a.2|strəʊˈmætɪk|
[f. mod.L. strōmat- stroma + -ic.]
Of the nature of or resembling a stroma; stromatous.
1891Century Dict. 1898Syd. Soc. Lex. |