graniticadj.
/ɡrəˈnɪtɪk/, /ɡraˈnɪtɪk/, U.S. /ɡrəˈnɪdɪk/ 1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of granite; composed of, or containing, granite. Of water: Obtained from granite soils.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [adjective] > plutonic > granite
granitic1794
granitical1796
granitose1811
granitiform1833
granitoid1839
granitiferous1852
granitous1866
the world > matter > liquid > water > [adjective] > properties or characteristics of water > from granite soil
granitic1869
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 357 Granitic Porphyry.
1798 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 127 The quartz and mica..indicate a granitic origin.
1807 J. Headrick View Mineral. Arran 57 A granitic vein intersects the strata.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 364 Conditions necessary to produce the granitic texture.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 56 A large prism of granite, or granitic gneiss.
1864 J. M. Neale Seatonian Poems 130 How those granitic temples rise.
1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. cxc. 80 The older rocks of the granitic series.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 21 Generally the granitic water is very pure.
1879 A. R. Wallace Australasia xi. 223 One-sixth of the area of the colony is granitic.
2. figurative. Hard, rigid, unimpressionable.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [adjective] > like hard substance
adamantinea1382
rock-like1595
unmalleable1606
immarbled1641
iron-bound1648
inflexible1698
cast iron1829
teak-built1847
granitic1862
inelastic1867
petrified1870
ossified1901
shatter-proof1936
sclerotic1965
1862 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables III. xii. 64 The granitic solidity of certain celebrated prose.
1876 T. Le M. Douse Grimm's Law xxxvi. 76 Much less shall we dream of the Holethnic speech as of one rigid and granitic whole.
1884 C. L. Pirkis Judith Wynne II. iii. 33 His face..was granitic in its effacement of all human feeling.
1886 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 137 The granitic, patriarchal figure of Job..is strikingly conceived.
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