Obs. [f. Gr. Στρώματ-α (see below) + -IC.
Browne is really the sole authority for the word; the adj. was inferred by Blount from Browne’s subst. use: Blount’s reference to ‘Ben Johnson’ is presumably an error; it is omitted in the later edd.]
a. adj. (See quots. 1656, 1847–54.) rare–0. b. sb. In pl. Stromatics, used by Browne to represent Gr. Στρώματα (more correctly Στρωματεῖς, lit. ‘patch-work quilts’), the title of a work by Clement of Alexandria.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. i. 277. Clemens Alexandrinus … in the first of his Stromaticks,… collecteth [etc.].
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Stromatick … belonging to strowings, or any thing spread on the ground, or under a thing. Ben Johnson.
1847–54. Webster, Stromatic, miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
