See Also: papistic(dictionary)

gabbro (iou) and papistic (iou)


gabbro (iou)



gabbro noun. Pl. -os. M19.
[Italian (Tuscan) from Latin glaber, glabr- smooth.]
A dark coarse-grained igneous rock of crystalline texture resembling dolerite and granite, and consisting largely of pyroxene (often as diallage), plagioclase feldspar, and often olivine.
ga'bbroic,
gabbro'itic adjectives L19.

papistic (iou)



papistic adjective. Chiefly derog. M16.
[from (the same root as) prec. + -IC.]
= PAPIST adjective.
papistical adjective = PAPIST adjective M16.
papistically adverb L16.