marmorealadj.
/mɑːˈmɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /mɑrˈmɔriəl/ literary.† 2. Made or composed of marble. Obsolete.
1. Resembling marble or a marble statue; cold (also smooth, white, etc.) like marble.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective]
hardeOE
braasny1382
dure1412
flinty?1541
obdurate1598
putaminous1598
oakeda1618
marblya1620
obdure1625
marmorean1656
durous1666
calculous1682
scirrhous1694
horn-hard1768
marmoreal1798
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > as marble
marblya1620
marmoreal1798
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as marble or alabaster
marble1565
alabaster1566
alabastrine1578
marmorean1656
marbly1814
marmoreal1869
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style
judicial1532
heroic1590
judiciary1603
wild1645
heroi-comic1708
mock-heroic1708
heroi-comical1712
flebilea1734
prosai-comi-epic1749
lusory1779
sulphureous1791
harlequinic1804
mock-heroical1825
newspaperish1825
marmoreal1892
kailyard1895
freestyle1906
paperback1921
nouny1926
Time-ese1947
nounal1952
kitchen sink1959
effectist1961
writerly1974
dirty realist1984
1798 W. S. Landor Gebir in Wks. (1846) II. 494 Looking recumbent how Love's column rose Marmoreal.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xlix. 25 Paving with fire the sky and the marmoreal floods.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 178 Marmoreal neck and bosom uberous.
1892 Sat. Rev. 15 Oct. 443/1 Blank-verse studies of merit, but somewhat cold and marmoreal in their severity.
1932 J. Buchan Gap in Curtain iv. 191 Miss Cortal was of the marmoreal blonde type.
1964 ‘N. Blake’ Sad Variety iii. 45 Her face looked marmoreal now, petrified in grief.
1989 G. Steiner Real Presences iii. iv. 187 There are passages..which make of language a counterpart at only one remove to the tactile planes, incurvations, rounded warmths or intended chills of the marmoreal and metallic.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [adjective] > made of marble
marbryn1319
marblea1382
marmoreal1825
marmorean1902
1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 181 Spurs of marble, and marmoreal limbs.
1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 134 Minaret And terrace and marmoreal spire.
Derivatives
marˈmoreally adv.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adverb]
harda1387
marmoreallya1846
a1846 A. T. de Vere Mary Tudor (1847) i. v. iii. 124 Cold, but composed, marmoreally rigid!
1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. Concl. 455 The marmoreally-finished minor poems of Ben [Jonson].
1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub xxi. §1 Who has not thought Venus now heavenly serene, now marmoreally blowsy?
1986 Financial Times (Nexis) 16 Oct. 17 Nicholas Georgiadis has..made the Hofburg seem even more marmoreally historic with portraits and tapestries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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