a. Also 7 -cious. [f. L. cinerici-us, -tius ashy, like ashes + -OUS.]
1. Ash-colored, ashen-gray; in Anat. used of the ‘gray-matter’ of the brain and spinal cord.
1686. in Phil. Trans., XVI. 230. Very little of the cineritious Colour to be seen. Ibid. (1697), XIX. 534. Whether I did distinguish the Cinericious and Medullary Substances.
1791. Pearson, in Phil. Trans., LXXXI. 353. A light grey or cineritious heavy powder.
1840. G. Ellis, Anat., 35. A medullary nucleus … enveloped by the grey or cineritious matter.
2. Of the nature of ashes or cinders.
1732. P. Delany, Revelation, II. 226 (R.). Broken and burnt rocks, ruins of buildings, and cineritious earth.
1782. Misc., in Ann. Reg., 172/1. The soil of the plain is cineritious.
1803. G. S. Faber, Cabiri, II. 389. No cineritious remains are visible … and … there are no marks of cremation in the cave.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., III. 337. Grey, sad, and cineritious.
