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English
Etymology
From sub- + cineritious.
Adjective
subcineritious (not comparable)
- Of a somewhat ashen gray color.
- 1657, Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:
- Subcineritiously virid.
- Some of the domestick Ducks are all white, others all black, others like Piets, partly white, partly black; and others subcineritious, as all wilde ones are.
- Balm flows from a Tree of a subcineritious colour.
1670, H. Stubbe, Plus Ultra, page 130:A subcineritious or dirty-coloured putrilage.
1824, The Anatomy of the Brain, Adapted for the Use of Students, Etc, pages 92-93:The infundibulum is a cineritious or reddish coloured body, of a conical figure, situated between the union of the optic berves and the corpora condidantia; [...] It is described by Vieussens as a short subcineritious vessel, which [...]
Further reading
1955 January 15, Joseph T. Shipley, Dictionary of Early English, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 638:[…] subcineritious (accent on the fourth syllable), baked under ashes. […]
1759, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary:... SUBCINERITIOUS [subcineritius, L.] baked under the Ashes.