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adjective

Crystalline adj.

1.

Consisting, or made, of crystal. "Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline."

2.

Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. "Their crystalline structure."

3.

Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.

4.

Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. "The crystalline sky."

Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavenly bodies.

Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.

noun

Crystalline n.

1.

A crystalline substance.

2.

See Aniline. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Crystalline'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crystalline" Quotes from Famous Books

... crystalline clearness, and, looking over the gunwale, one could see far into the depths, where strange-looking fish were sporting, sometimes coming to the surface and then shooting far down beyond the reach of human vision. Now and then, too, as little Inez leaned over the side of the vessel and ...

— Adrift on the Pacific • Edward S. Ellis

... The unison passages that mount and recede were iridescent columns of mist painted by the moonlight and swaying rhythmically in the breeze. Here was something rare. No longer conscious of the technical side of the playing, so spiritualized was it, so crystalline the touch, Davos forgot his manners and slipped through the gateway, through the dark garden, toward an open window in which burned a solitary candle. The mystery of this window and the quicksilver dartings of the music—gods, what ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

... little souls! as pure and white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul ...

— Greetings from Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... happened to marry a girl whose greatest charm to him had been her tenderness of heart, her innocent candor, and that purity of mind which comes of hatred—not ignorance—of sin. A worldlier woman would not have been so shocked; but he had never desired less crystalline transparency of mind—less exquisite whiteness of soul, for Nan. No; that was the worst of it: the very qualities that he admired and respected in her bore ...

— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... bush in their immediate neighbourhood, while other and more distant objects were momentarily stealing into view as the mist-wreaths thinned away and vanished. A few minutes later the entire landscape lay clearly revealed before them, sharp and distinct in the crystalline purity of the early ...

— With Airship and Submarine - A Tale of Adventure • Harry Collingwood

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