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Granitic definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GRANIT'IC, a. Pertaining to granit; like granit; having the nature of granitic; as granitic texture.
1. Consisting of granit; as granitic mountains.
Granitic aggregates, in mineralogy, granular compounds of two or more simple minerals, in which only one of the essential ingredients of granit is present; as quartz and hornblend, feldspar and shorl, etc. Similar compounds occur, in which none of the ingredients of granit are present.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony]
2: hard as granite; "a granitic fist" [syn: granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see granite

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Granitic Gra*nit"ic, a. [Cf. F. granitique.] 1. Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture. 2. Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.