1705, David van Nyendael (author of the original Dutch; translator unknown), “A Deſcription of Rio Formoſa, or the River of B E N I N”, letter XXI in: Willem Bosman (author of the original Dutch; translator unknown), A New and Accurate Deſcription of the Coaſt of Guinea, Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coaſts, page 437:
The King keeps theſe Corals in his own Poſſeſſion; and the Counterfeiting, or having any of them in Poſſeſſion without his Grant, is puniſhed with Death. They are made of a ſort of pale red Coctile Earth or Stone, and very well glazed, and are very like ſpeckled red Marble.
1760, An Univerſal Hiſtory, from the Earlieſt Account of Time XXXVII, book xvii, chapter 7: “The Hiſtory of Benin, under the antient diviſion of Guiney”, page 366:
Theſe badges of honour are carefully kept by the king in his own poſſeſſion; and the counterfeiting or poſſeſſing any of them, without being legally inveſted therewith, is puniſhed with death. They are made of a pale-reddiſh coctile earth, finely glazed and ſpeckled like marble, with a great variety of beautiful colours.
1806, Samuel Pegge, Curialia: or, An Hiſtorical Account of Some Branches of the Royal Houſehold, &c. &c., part V: “A Diſſertation on the Ancient Eſtabliſhment and Functions of the Serjeants at Arms”, page 62:
The deſcription this writer gives of theſe chains, so valuable to the wearers, and often by their loſs ſo fatal, is that they are formed, though in a country abounding with gold, of no better a material than a pale red cocktile earth, or ſtone glazed, having the appearance of marble. Such is the comparative value of our wants and our poſſeſſions, and ſuch the brittle ornaments of office!
1842, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine IX, page 682:
From the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice.
1850, David Urquhart, The Pillars of Hercules; or, A Narrative of Travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848 II, book iv, chapter 2: “Shemish, the Gardens of the Hesperides”, page 145:
The land was intersected with canals, carrying water field by field over the Doab of the Tigris and Euphrates: beyond this region spread dead levels, which, as Xenophon says, resembled the sea. From the city’s lofty walls stretched on all sides, far as eye could reach, flatness and luxuriance. What, then, could taste divine and power accomplish — if not the rivaling of wild nature — to transport thither a primeval forest, and to pile up coctile mountains to place it on. Such was the design of the Hanging Gardens; and, when accomplished, doubtless they were a wonder.
1851, “The Age of Honesty”, article VIII in The Dublin Review XXXI, № lxii, page 599:
Champollion believed the whole thing to be a job, and determined to prove it. In the mean time the excavations continued, and soon a most singularly shaped coctile vessel, or terra cotta urn, as it was called, was brought to light, only slightly damaged by a workman’s spade.
1874, J.D. Beglar and A.C.L. Carlleyle, Delhi, page 189:
Now, these tiles are of the coctile kind, or which have been baked red like bricks or common red “roofing tiles;” and their substance is not crystallized; and in this they differ from the blue glazed tiles which form a band along the front of the Id Gah of Ala-ud-din Khilji at Repari, of which the substance is white and coarsely crystallized.
1885, Samuel Fallows, The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, page 130/3, “Coc tive”:
Coc tive (kŏkʹtiv), a. Made by baking or exposing to heat, as a brick; coctile.
1887, John Hankins Wallace, Wallace’s Monthly XIII, Benjamin Singerly, page 365:
Was ever coctile product more appetizing to hungry mortals! The good Dr. Talmage, who acknowledges a heavy debt to good bread as a stimulant to an overdrained brain, would revel in dithyrambic and gyratory exultation over the art of these two colored brethren who make dyspeptics yearn for relief from digestive disorganization.
1903, Judge’s Library: A Monthly Magazine of Fun CLXVI–CLXXVII, page unknown:
…/ Oh, reniose pork! oh, lomentaceous twin! // Now coctile in that Massachusetts jar, // Again we yield thee homage, bean-pot red, // And bow before thy porcate anaglyph.
1995, Paolo Favole, Squares in Contemporary Architecture, Architectura & Natura Press, page 71:
With a scheme wholly resolved on the floor level, the intermediate area – an elongated bowl – is forced to take on a formal characterization that is rich in evocations: an oval platform of stone, explicitly inspired by the Piazza Navona, stands out inside a perimeter frame of beige coctile brick with a fishbone formation.
1996 April 10th–12th, Douglas D. Burleigh and Jane W.M. Spicer, Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers MMDCCLXVI: Thermosense XVIII, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), page 58:
The “coctile” texture of the wall is visible where there are lacks of plaster and elements of stone appear too.
2001, Ian Fairley (translator), Paul Celan (author), Fathomsuns and Benighted: Fadensonnen & Eingedunkelt, Sheep Meadow Press, →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13), page 41:
In the everlasting shaft: the coctile // mouths // rave.
