combining form of Gr. κρύσταλλος crystal, used in derivatives and compounds: Crystallo-ceramic a., pertaining to a method of incrusting a medallion of clay with glass. Crystalloclast nonce-wd. [cf. iconoclast], one who breaks crystals. Crystallo-engraving, a method of making intaglio designs upon glass by means of casting. Crystallo-granular a., composed of minute crystalline grains. Crystallo-magnetic a., pertaining to the magnetic properties of crystals and crystallized bodies, as shown by a kind of polarity directly related to the crystalline axes of minerals. Crystallotype, a photographic picture on glass; also attrib.
1870. Eng. Mech., 7 Jan., 409/2. Another kind of ornamental manufacture is what is termed the crystallo-ceramic, or glass incrustation.
1837. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc., III. XV. ii. 205. Innovators in crystallography, who may properly be called crystalloclasts.
1873. Watts, Fownes’ Chem., 446. The sodium salt is crystallo-granular.
1883. Heddle, in Encycl. Brit., XVI. 377. Crystallomagnetic action.
1853. in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., V. 312. Mr. Justice offered for inspection … a ‘Crystallotype’ of the Moon.
