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▪ I. † ˈschistic, a.1 Obs. rare—1. In 8 erron. schystic. [ad. assumed Gr. *σχιστικός, f. σχιδ-, σχίζειν to split: see schism n.] Dividing, analytical. (In quot. humorously pedantic.)
1742–3Fielding Phil. Trans. Wks. 1771 VI. 500 We are forced to proceed..by the metabolic or mutative [method], not by the schystic or divisive. ▪ II. ˈschistic, a.2 Geol. rare. [f. schist1 + -ic.] Pertaining to, resembling a schist: = schistoid.
1806Gazetteer Scot. (ed. 2) 259 The rocks in the parish are mostly whinstone, and schistic strata. 1807J. Headrick Arran 50 Masses of schistic rock. 1931Discovery Nov. 355/2 Around the melting snow in schistic soil Androsace hedreantha was flowering in hundreds. ▪ III. schistic, a.3 Acoustics.|ˈskɪstɪk| In 9 skhistic. [See quot.] Of a system of musical temperament, or tones as tempered on this system: Based on an allowance for the difference of a ‘schist’.
1875Ellis tr. Helmholtz' Sensat. Tone App. xix. 652 Skhistic, or Helmholtzian [temperament] as it may be called... The name Skhistic is derived from skhist..which I use for the small interval that is one-eighth of the Greek skhisma. Ibid., The complete series of skhistic tones. Ibid. 764 If skhistic intonation could be easily produced in practice. |