cinerulent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cinerulentus, from cinis (“ashes”) (oblique stem ciner-) + -ulentus.

Adjective

cinerulent (comparative more cinerulent, superlative most cinerulent)

1. (obsolete) Full of ashes; resembling ashes.
   • 1661, Robert Lovell, “[ΠΑΝΟΡΤΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANORTKTOLOGIA] SIVE PAMMINERALOGICON. Or An Universal History of Minerals: […].], Geologia”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, [...], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC, page 37:

     The best [form of cadmia] is the botritis, thick, moderately heavy, smooth, of a racemose superficies, which being broken is cinerulent.

   • 1831, Richard Burgess, The Topography and Antiquities of Rome: Including Recent Discoveries Made about the Forum and the Via Sacra, volume 1, page 31:

     The two chiefs of the Latin Muses have however shed a lustre over the cinerulent soil, the one by having had his abode upon it, the other by his sepulchre.

   • 1833, Peter Leonard, Records of a voyage to the western coast of Africa, and of the service in that station for the suppression of the Slave Trade, in […] 1830-2, page 216:

     After some days lost in search of the mysterious Island of St Matthew, […] we arrived, on the 29th July, at the Island of Ascension, a rugged, cinerulent congeries of tumuli, occupied by about four hundred individuals […]

References

• “cinerulent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.