asphaltic

English

Etymology

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], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, 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 [the pilgrim]
  
  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 57395299, 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.

Translations

containing asphalt

Polish: asfaltowy (pl)

References

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.

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[1] 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.