Also 8 breciated, 9 brechiated. [f. BRECCIA; cf. It. brecciato, pa. pple. of brecciare to reduce to breccia.] Formed into a breccia, of the structure of a breccia.
1772. Pennant, Tour Scotl. (1774), 218. Some are breciated or filled with crystalline kernels.
1789. Mills, in Phil. Trans., LXXX. 86. The including chert, amongst which we found some that is brecciated.
1830. Lyell, Elem. Geol. (1865), 458. The well known brecciated limestone of the Pyrenees.
1875. Croll, Climate & T., xviii. 294. The brecciated subangular conglomerates and boulder beds of the Old Red Sandstone.