a. [f. Gr. ταῦρος or L. taurus bull + -IC.] Pertaining or relating to, or of the nature of, a bull; taurine.
1816. G. S. Faber, Orig. Pagan Idol., I. 406. The tauric Jupiter was the parent of the Cretan Minos. Ibid. (1818), Horæ Mosaicæ, I. 314. He set up at Bethel two calves of gold in apparent imitation of the tauric Cherubim of the temple.
1882. R. Brown, Law Kosmic Order, 43. In the tauric and bovine form.
