vitrifiedadj.
/ˈvɪtrɪfʌɪd/ 1.
a. Converted into glass or a glassy substance by exposure to heat; rendered glassy; glazed.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to named chemical reactions or processes > of or relating to vitrification
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [adjective] > converted into glass
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > made cold or cool > frozen
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 53 Vitrified and pellucide bodyes are of a clearer complexion in their continuities, then in their powders and Atomicall divisions. View more context for this quotation
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 49 The sun..would..convert it at length either into an heap of ashes, or a lump of vitrified metal.
1777 J. Williams Acc. Anc. Ruins 15 It was all one heap of vitrified ruins from top to bottom.
1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 9 The sand..fluxes, and runs by the intense heat, and so cases over the whole face of the kiln with a strong vitrified coat like glass.
a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 80 At a little distance from the pit there was a large pile of calcined and vitrified ore.
1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 349 Glazed or vitrified pipes should only be used in or under buildings.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius ii. 37 That foul vitrified matter called lava.
b. figurative. Icy, frozen.
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a1832 G. Crabbe Midnight in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1988) I. 216 The winds that in converging Furrows plough, The freezing Pool..Are arm'd with Pain, and vitrified their Wings.
2. vitrified fort n. a hill fort of a type occurring in Scotland and some parts of the Continent, the stones of which have been converted into a vitreous material by the action of fire.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > other types of fort
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motte castle1912
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murus gallicus1939
1777 J. Williams Acc. Anc. Ruins 25 The largest vitrified fort I ever saw, is on the south side the Grampians, in the shire of Angus.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 115 Upon the top of an insulated hill adjoining, there appears to have been what some would call a vitrified fort; though others will have it to be the vestiges of a volcano.
1825 Hibbert in Trans. Soc. Antiq. Scot. (1831) IV. 180 The name of vitrified fort may with much advantage be exchanged for the more comprehensive and untheoretical one of vitrified site.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iii. iii. 413 One of the most remarkable specimens of a vitrified fort in Scotland.
1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. ix. 173 The vitrified fort on the Hill of Noath.
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