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.

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1772.  Pennant, Tour Scotl. (1774), 218. Some are breciated or filled with crystalline kernels.

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1789.  Mills, in Phil. Trans., LXXX. 86. The including chert, amongst which we found some that is brecciated.

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1830.  Lyell, Elem. Geol. (1865), 458. The well known brecciated limestone of the Pyrenees.

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1875.  Croll, Climate & T., xviii. 294. The brecciated subangular conglomerates and boulder beds of the Old Red Sandstone.

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