Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to asbestos, or partaking of its nature and qualities; incombustible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.
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- adjective Resembling or relating to
asbestos .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In each of them was a flaming wick, partly of asbestine flax, as of old in the temple of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In each of them was a flaming wick, partly of asbestine flax, as of old in the temple of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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About two foot and a half below that gold plate, the three chains were fastened to three handles that were fixed to a large round lamp of most pure crystal, whose diameter was a cubit and a half, and opened about two hands 'breadths o' top; by which open place a vessel of the same crystal, shaped somewhat like the lower part of a gourd-like limbec, or an urinal, was put at the bottom of the great lamp, with such a quantity of the afore-mentioned burning water, that the flame of the asbestine wick reached the centre of the great lamp.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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In each of them was a flaming wick, partly of asbestine flax, as of old in the temple of Jupiter Ammon, such as those which Cleombrotus, a most studious philosopher, saw, and partly of Carpasian flax (Ozell's correction.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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