sigillatedadj.
1. Impressed with a seal; esp. sigillated earth, Lemnian earth, sphragide (after medieval Latin terra sigillata).Cf. Lithgow Trav. (1632) iii. 97, ‘The latter [name] is in force, because the earth being made up in little pellets, is sealed with a Turkish signet.’
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terra sigillata1398
Saracen's earth1526
Terra Lemnia1613
sigillated earth1657
sphragid1828
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ccc2v* The best of medicinal Earths, is that..the shop-men call Lemnian Earth, and sometimes Sigillated Earth.
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata i. 11 Baked and sigillated Earth..us'd for money.
1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xxiv. 502 It is known that great use is still made in the East of the bolar and sigillated earths of Lemnos, which are clay mingled with oxide of iron.
2. = sigillate adj. 2. ( Cent. Dict.)
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