Chem. [f. CER-IUM + -IC.] Of or belonging to cerium; applied to compounds in which cerium combines as a tetrad, as in Ceric oxide, CeO2, ceric (or cerium) salts.
1863–79. Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 834. Ceric fluoride … is a yellow precipitate. Ibid. (1879), 3rd Supp. 421. Normal and basic ceric salts.
1873. Watts, Fownes’ Chem., 380. The ceric compounds, in which it is apparently trivalent.
