a. rare–1. [f. STALACTITE + -IOUS.] Containing stalactites.
1740. T. Short, Hist. Min. Waters, 159. These Stalactitious and Calcarious Earths I pitch’d upon, as the most alcaline, and likely to answer.
1799. Coleridge, in New Monthly Mag. (1835), XLV. 213. It [an enormous cavern] went underground 800 feet, consisted of various apartments, dripping, stalactitious, and with mock chimneys.
1838. A. B. Granville, Spas of Germany, ii. 13. The interior of a round tower, the rough walls of which, incrusted with reddish ochre, and stalactitious depositions of salts, still exhibit traces of Roman handicraft.
