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† geˈlatia Obs.
Also 4 gelacia.
[perh. an etymologizing perversion (after L. gelāre to freeze) of L. chalazias, f. Gr. χάλαζα hail.]
(See quot.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. l. (1495) 570 Gelacia is a whyte precyous stone shapen as an heyll stone: and it is so calde that it neuer hetith wyth fyre. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 9. 1601 Chester Love's Mart., Dial. lxxxvi, The Topaze, Turches, and Gelatia. |