parietine

See also: pariétine

English

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Etymology

From Latin parietinus (“parietal”). Compare Latin parietinae (“ruined walls”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pəˈɹaɪ.ɪtɪn/

Noun

parietine (plural parietines)

(obsolete) A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
  we have many ruins of such baths found in this island, amongst those parietines and rubbish of old Roman towns

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parietine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Napierite