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elephantic, a. and n.|ɛlɪˈfæntɪk|
[ad. L. elephanticus, f. elephas elephant.]
A. adj. Pertaining to or resembling an elephant; huge, ponderous; = elephantine. Now rare.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 31 And speaking painters excuse Titian, For his Ioues loves; and Elephanticke vaine. 1766G. Canning Anti-Lucretius iii. 194 Give those a sting, or elephantic snout. 1835New Monthly Mag. XLIII. 85 The fervent lightness of Lewis, the elephantic ponderosity of Cooke.
†B. n. = elephantiasis. Obs. rare.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W.) iv. 332 b/1 A man..was seke of a maladye called elephantyke. |