† stiriateadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Formed into ‘stiriæ’.
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1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 53 What remained was a bright styriate floscule.
Derivatives
ˈstiriated adj. in the same sense.
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1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 52 Like a diaphanous heap of Icycles or stiriated Niter.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. §ii. iii. 334 Styriated Antimony..from Cornwall.
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 154 I observed several of the Stiriated Stalactitæ (or Sparry Iceycles) hanging down from the Bank-side.
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