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English
Etymology
From asphalt + -ic.
Adjective
asphaltic (comparative more asphaltic, superlative most asphaltic)
- Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt or bitumen.
- Synonym: bituminous
asphaltic concrete; asphaltic sediment
1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 293-298:The aggregated Soyle
Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,
As with a Trident smote, and fix’t as firm
As Delos floating once; the rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move,
And with Asphaltic slime,
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, Canto 4, lines 275-276, in The Botanic Garden, London: J. Johnson, p. 166,
- On mouldering piles amid asphaltic mud
- Hears the hoarse bittern, where Gomorrah stood;
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 8:[…] the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,
- (obsolete) Of or relating to the Dead Sea (salt lake between Jordan and Israel).[1]
1619, Stephen Jerome, Origens Repentance, London: Roger Jackson, Section 2, p. 29:As Sodomes Apples, neere th’Asphalticke lake,
Of specious shew, yet touch’t, to ashes turning,
So are sinnes poysons sweete, yet bane to take;
1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas, London: R. Dodsley, Book 3, lines 349-354, p. 93:[…] who gather from the fragrant shrub
The aromatic balsam, and extract
Its milky juice along the lovely side
Of winding Jordan, till immers’d it sleep
Beneath the pitchy surface, which obscures
Th’ Asphaltic lake.
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- ^ Thomas Blount, Glossographia, 1661: Asphaltick, Of or belonging to the dead Sea, or Lake called Asphaltites, nigh which once stood the infamous Cities of Sodom and Gomorrha.