subcineritious

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ cineritious.

Adjective

subcineritious (not comparable)

1. Of a somewhat ashen gray color.
   • 1657, Tomlinson (translator), Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory:

     [page 353:] Subcineritiously virid.

     [page 446:] 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.

     [page 672:] 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.