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▪ I. ite|aɪt|
[The suffix -ite1 used as an independent word: cf. ism quasi-n.]
A person or thing that is or may be designated by a n. in -ite.
1852Blackw. Mag. Aug. 260/1 The right honourable gentleman has shown that he is neither a Derby-ite nor a Russell-ite. Then what ite are you? 1906Westm. Gaz. 1 Dec. 9/2 A big factory for explosives, holding dynamite, ballistite, cordite..Heaven knows what ‘ites’—sufficient to wreck half the world. 1926R. W. Hutchinson First Course Wireless viii. 138 Most of the ‘ites’ on the market..are galena subjected to various treatments.
▪ II. ite
see ita. |