a. and sb. [ad. L. elephanticus, f. elephas ELEPHANT.]

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  A.  adj. Pertaining to or resembling an elephant; huge, ponderous; = ELEPHANTINE. Now rare.

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1598.  E. Gilpin, Skial. (1878), 31. And speaking painters excuse Titian, For his Ioues loves; and Elephanticke vaine.

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1766.  G. Canning, Anti-Lucretius, III. 194. Give those a sting, or elephantic snout.

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1835.  New Monthly Mag., XLIII. 85. The fervent lightness of Lewis, the elephantic ponderosity of Cooke.

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  † B.  sb. = ELEPHANTIASIS. Obs. rare.

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1491.  Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W.), IV. 332 b/1. A man … was seke of a maladye called elephantyke.

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