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granitic, a.|græˈnɪtɪk|
[f. granite + -ic. Cf. F. granitique.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of granite; composed of, or containing, granite. Of water: Obtained from granite soils.
1794Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 357 Granitic Porphyry. 1798Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 127 The quartz and mica..indicate a granitic origin. 1807J. Headrick View Min. Arran 57 A granitic vein intersects the strata. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 364 Conditions necessary to produce the granitic texture. 1862Tyndall Mountaineer. 56 A large prism of granite, or granitic gneiss. 1864Neale Seaton. Poems 130 How those granitic temples rise. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. cxc. 80 The older rocks of the granitic series. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 21 Generally the granitic water is very pure. 1879D. M. Wallace Australas. xi. 223 One-sixth of the area of the colony is granitic.
2. fig. Hard, rigid, unimpressionable.
1862Wraxall Hugo's Misérables III. xii. 64 The granitic solidity of certain celebrated prose. 1876T. Le M. Douse Grimm's L. xxxvi. 76 Much less shall we dream of the Holethnic speech as of one rigid and granitic whole. 1884C. L. Pirkis Judith Wynne II. iii. 33 His face..was granitic in its effacement of all human feeling. 1886Edin. Rev. Jan. 137 The granitic, patriarchal figure of Job..is strikingly conceived. |