Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a mineral that can be cut or severed smoothly by a knife but cannot withstand pulverization.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being cut; in mineralogy, noting minerals, as talc, mica, and steatite, which can be cut smoothly by a knife without the particles breaking, crumbling, or flying about; in botany, appearing as if cut into small particles or pieces. Also sective.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of being cut.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being cut; specifically (Min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.
Etymologies
- Latin sectilis. (Wiktionary)
- Latin sectilis, from sectus, past participle of secāre, to cut; see sek- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“During the campaign of 2008 the opus sectile floor of the Apodyterium and Frigidarium II of the Roman baths of Sagalassos was already examined.”
Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds
“On pietre dure, opus sectile, pictorial stones, and some pretty little pebbles.”
“There was no mistaking that painted armor of over-lapping plates or those strange, in-sectile helmets.”
“The main undertaking was completing the consolidation of frescoes in the Basilica in the former Bouleuterion's courtyard and in the palatial mansion of the Domestic area, but there was also emergency fixing of unstable marble opus sectile slabs recently excavated in the Roman Baths.”
“AD opus sectile floor covering the Frigidarium II and the Apodyterium, which was excavated in 2004, was once again exposed during the first two weeks of the campaign.”
“As is also the case with the opus sectile floor of the Roman Baths, also the marble wall veneer from this building originates mostly from Dokimeion, while cipollino is the second most frequent stone type used for marble wall veneer in the Frigidarium II, the Apodyterium and the room to the south of the Apodyterium.”
“These were probably made of marble veneer and marble or opus sectile (shaped tiles of colored marble) slabs, as no fragments of wall plaster or mosaics were found.”
“The opus sectile floor covering the frigidarium II and the apodyterium, which was excavated from 2002 to 2004, was once again partially exposed during the first week of the campaign in order to allow Markku Corremans to carry out his doctoral research on imported exotic stones used at Sagalassos.”
“View of one of the partially exposed opus sectile floor sections from frigidarium II”
“Plan of the fourth to early fifth century A.D. frigidarium II and apodyterium with their opus sectile floor panels”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sectile’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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smoooth
satined, sleek, glossy, legato, uncrannied, suave, smoothen, polish, satiny, flowing, levigate, politic and 78 more...
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Nabokov start
I came here to look up what "iridule" meant and intend to lurk until I have a grip on how this plays. However, I have started this list to see how it operates, and since I am reading "Pale Fire", ...
iridule, vermiculated, torquated, torque, litotes, sectile, scrubbled
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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Pale Fire
rubicund, buttonhole, stillicide, preterist, curio, iridule, lemniscate, cherubic, portico, vestry, rodstein, sectile and 107 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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