Here - Norm's Book Club

VOLCANICALLY.
Hatftr's Mag. Jnly 243/2 Btiant. But Hugo reaches as
high and goes as deep as anybody.. .Sfcncer. But isn't he
rather—rather volcanic.
5. = VoLCANKAN a. rartT^.
1793 [Earl Dundonald) Descr. Estate Cuirass 31 It is a
field well worth being explored by a volcanic Mineralist.
6. Comb., as volcanic-like, -looking adjs.
1800 Leyues Tour Higilamis (1903) 132 The red conical
top of the volcanic-like hill. 1854 A. R. Wallace in My
Life (1905) 1. XX. 335 K coarse, volcanic-looking gravel.
Hence Volcanioo-, combining form, in the sense
' volcanic and — ', as in volcanico-marine adj.
l8u J. Parkinson Ox//. Oryctol. 260 The Breccip of Nice,
the volcanico-marine valley, as it is called by St. Fond.
Volca-nically, adv. [See prec. and -ICALLY.]
X. In an explosive, eruptive, or fiery manner;
with sudden violence.
iSao Carlvle Heroes iv. (1858I 274 The accumulation of
offences is.. too literally exploded, blasted asunder volcani.
cally. 1873 SvMONDS Gk. Poets v. 127 The energies, .were
restrained by the Aeolians within the sphere of individual
emotions, ready to burst forth volcanically. l8jl T. Hardy
Tess XXV, Here, in this apparently.. unimpassioned place,
novelty bad volcanically started up.
2. In respect of a volcano or volcanoes ; with
regard to volcanic nature.
1886 Daily News 2 Sept. 4/7 Astronomically, it [the earth]
Is solid in its relations ; volcanically, it is of liquid or plastic
character. 189a IMd. 16 Mar. 2/1 Cotopaxi . . comports
itself, volcanically speaking, in a regul^ and welUbehaved
manner. . ,
Volcanicity (vfjlkani-Siti). [ad. F. volcamciti,
or f. Volcanic a. -f -ity. Cf. Vulcanicity.] Volcanic
action, activity, or phenomena.
1836 Macgillivrav Trav. Humboldt xxvii. 411 Volcanicity,
or the influence which the interior of our planet exercbes
upon its external envelope. 1883 /I thenxum 25 Aug.
245 One of those earthquakes called perimetric, that are due
to a local volcanicity.
Volcanism (vjrlkaniz'm). [a. F. voUamsme :
see Volcano sh. and -isM, and cf. Vulcanism.]
The state, condition, or character of being volcanic
volcanic action or phenomena.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuv.y. 150 Even if no other indication
of former volcanism be traceable, 1882 Geikie Geol. Sk.
276 The vast numberof fissures, .appeared hardly to connect
themselves with any known phase of volcanism. 189S Pop.
Sci. Monthly Mar. 577 Much more attention than formerly
is now paid to the study of volcanism.
Volcanist Cvp-lkanist). [f. VOLCAN-0 rf.-h
*
-1ST, or a. F. volcanisle.']
L An asserter of the igneous origin of certain
geological formations ; a Plutonist or Vulcanist.
1796 KiRWAN Elem. Mi/t.ied.2) I. 445 This theory having
appeared unsatisfactory to many of the volcanists themselves,
they next devised [etc.]. 1813 W. Phillips Min. S,
Geol. 68 Two distinct parlies, distinguished according to the
notion they embrace, by the appellations of Volcanists and
Neptunists. 1850 .\nsted Elein. Geol., Min. etc. Gloss.,
Volcanist. . . A term of reproach belonging now only to the
history of geology.
2. One who studies or is versed in volcanoes.
1838-32 Webster. 1848 Daubeny Descr. Volcanos 142
The neighlwuring country to the north of Vicenza is inter-
esting to the volcanist.
Vo'lcanite
'. Min. rare-", [f. Volcan-o sb.
+ -ITE, or a. F. volcanile.'] (See quot and cf.
Vulcanite i.)
1838-31 Webster, Volcnnite, a mineral otherwise called
augite. [Hence in later Diets,]
Vo'lcanite ^. Min. [f. Vokan-o one of the
Lipari Islands -f -ITE 1
4.] (See quot.)
1868 Watts Diet. Chem. V. 1004
sulphur.
Volcanile, selenide of
VOlca'nity. rare. [f. VoLCAN-lc a. + -ITT. Cf.
Volcanicity.] a. Volcanic nature, quality, or
vi. I. iQo So as to form a soil entirely volcanized. llfid. vii.
I. 200 in a volcanized country, where stones of any other
than a volcanic nature are not to be found.
Hence 'Vo'lcanlse v. trans. (Cf. Vulcanize o.)
1828 Webster (citing Spallanzani), and in later Diets.
Volcano (vplk^'no), sb. Also 7-9 vulcano.
PI. volcanoes (7-9 -os, -o's). [a. It. volcano
(Florio, 1598), vulcano (Florio, i6ii):-L. Vol-,
Vulcdnum, ace. of Volcanus Vulcan. Cf. Volcan.]
1. Physiogr. A more or less conical hill or mountain,
composed wholly or chiefly of discharged
matter, communicating with the interior of the
globe by a funnel or crater, from which in periods
294
of activity steam, gases, ashes, rocks, and freq.
streams of molten materials are ejected.
See also mud-, pseudo-volcano s.v. Mud sb. s, Pseudo- 2.
o. 1613 PURCHAS Pilgr. vlll. xiv. 686 A Vulcano or
flaming hill, the fire whereof may be scene . . aboue 100
miles. 1663 J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 85 They regarded
those mighty Vulcanos as the Courts of Pluto. 1710 Palmer
Proverbs 25 He that would needs peep into mount Vesuvius,
and search the depth of its vulcano's. 1788 Gibbon Dccl. /