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Definition of Mafic
1. Adjective. (geology) Describing rocks, such as silicate minerals, magmas, and volcanic and intrusive igneous rocks, which contain relatively high concentrations of magnesium and iron. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mafic
1. pertaining to minerals rich in magnesium and iron [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mafic
Literary usage of Mafic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"Cae-ay-mafic Having the quality of consolidating, a. Pray-mafic Meddling;
impertinent, a. ... Ep-i-yram-mafic Belonging te, or of the nature of epigrams, a. ..."
2. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"Since highly mafic rocks grade into rocks with increasing amounts of feldspathic
minerals, and there are transitions from pyroxenites and peridotites into ..."
3. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker (1904)
"Cat-ng-mafie Having the quality of consolidating, a. frog-mafic Meddling; ...
A>th-mafic Troubled with an asthma, a. Ant-mi h-mat'ic Good against an asthma, ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"... towards the King and his party, and then their pulling off their mafic, and
appearing in their natural drefs of inhumanity and fa- ..."
5. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... mafic jurisdiction, over such transactions. You do not doubt that congress
may pass a law declaring that prisoners taken during an actual war within a ..."
6. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1779)
"... could detain the rapid winds, and lead the oaks and elms into a country
dance.—Such being the efficacy of mafic, the author of this ..."
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