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Definition of Diallage
1. n. A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point.
2. n. A dark green or bronze-colored laminated variety of pyroxene, common in certain igneous rocks.
Definition of Diallage
1. Noun. A figure of speech in which multiple arguments are brought to bear on a single point ¹
2. Noun. (minerology) A green form of pyroxene ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diallage
1. a mineral [n -S]
Medical Definition of Diallage
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Diallage
Literary usage of Diallage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1855)
"The fact that crystallized diallage has the form of augite, the presence of water as
... The diallage from the gabbro of Baste and particularly that from La ..."
2. The History of Geological Surveys in Minnesota by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"This diallage is evidently a secondary concretionary product in the rock, ...
1, represents a diallage core which is much altered and surrounded by a green ..."
3. The Geological Observer by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1851)
"Though there may be some intermixtures of the serpentine and the diallage rock
rendering their relative antiquity a little doubtful in places, as a whole, ..."
4. Geology of the Serpentine Belt Coleraine Sheet, Thetford-Black Lake Mining by John Knox Knox (1918)
"The enstatite is partly altered to talc and along the cleavage planes the diallage
is commencing to change to chlorite and talc. ..."
5. Manual of Geology: Practical and Theoretical by John Phillips (1855)
"diallage rocks are equally abundant, often occur in connection with the serpentine,
and there is now no doubt as to the fact that these two rocks are very ..."
6. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1857)
"diallage Rock.—Associated with the ophiolites, throughout the Eastern Townships,
there are found in abundance, interstratified masses of rocks, ..."
7. Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1839)
"... diallage, and felspar, the crystallization being large grained. The hornblende
slate and rock of the Lizard is also extremely fertile, ..."
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