a. [ad. late L. labyrinthic-us, a. Gr. λαβυρινθικ-ός, f. λαβύρινθος LABYRINTH.] = LABYRINTHINE, in various senses. Labyrinthic cavity: the labyrinth of the ear. L. teeth (see quot. 1888).
1641. Vicars, God in Mount, 20. Its craft and labyrinthick intricacie [sc. of an oath].
1798. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XXVII. 529. The labyrinthic paths of hypothesis and fiction.
1811. Shelley, St. Irvyne, x. Thence was I led into a train of labyrinthic meditations.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 20. In that labyrinthic combination, each Part overlaps, and indents, and indeed runs quite through the other.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., II. 536/2. In many fishes the labyrinthic cavity forms one with that of the cranium.
1875. Huxley, in Encycl. Brit., I. 762/2. The complicated or labyrinthic structure exhibited by transverse sections of the teeth of typical Labyrinthodonts.
1888. Syd. Soc. Lex., Labyrinthic teeth, teeth which have numerous radiating, sinuous, vertical grooves, which penetrate their substance and interdigitate with similarly shaped processes of the pulp-cavity; as in the Labyrinthodon.
