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单词 porphyritical
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porphyriticaladj.

Forms: 1800s porphyretical, 1800s porphyritical.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French porphyrétique , -al suffix1; Latin porphyriticus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: Partly < French porphyrétique (1811 in the passage translated in quot. 1811; < classical Latin porphyrēticus porphyritic adj.) + -al suffix1, and partly < post-classical Latin porphyriticus porphyritic adj. + -al suffix1. Compare earlier porphyritic adj.
Obsolete.
Porphyritic.
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1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain I. Geographical Introd. p. xlviii In two excursions which I made, the one..to the porphyretical summits [Fr. cimes porphyrétiques] (organos) of Actopan..I determined the position of ten points.
1813 J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. XXXV. 2456 One specimen..is on a reddish porphyritical stone or indurated clay.
1877 A. Hague & S. F. Emmons in C. King Rep. Geol. Explor. 40th Parallel iii. 357 The granite of Lone Peak..shows also a porphyritical structure, carrying large crystals of dull white orthoclase in a crystalline state.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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