a. Also latericeous (in mod. American Dicts.). [f. L. laterītius, -īcius, f. later brick: see -ITIOUS1.] Pertaining to or resembling brick; of the color of brick, brick-red: said chiefly of urinary deposits.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Lateritious, made of brick, or like brick.
1658. Phillips, Latericious.
1733. Cheyne, Eng. Malady, II. xi. § 2 (1734), 229. The Water … never with a gross or full lateritious Sediment.
1763. E. Stone, in Phil. Trans., LIII. 200. The longer they are kept the more they incline to a cinnamon or lateritious colour.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 418. A secretion of thick lateritious urine.
