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- noun See
asphalt .
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- noun Archaic form of
asphalt .
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Examples
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"asphaltus;" a work too bulky for ideal architects.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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I have seen cisterns of asphaltus, very well made, which may last a long time.
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This, then, was not a natural petrifaction, operated by asphaltus and salt, but an evident miracle.
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The real asphaltus is that which was obtained in the vicinity of
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All the wells are brackish; you find asphaltus and corrosive salt on first striking a spade into the ground.
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Be this as it may, not one of our travellers has yet thought fit to examine the soil of Sodom, with its asphaltus, its salt, its trees and their fruits, to weigh the water of the lake, to analyze it, to ascertain whether bodies of greater specific gravity than common water float upon its surface, and to give us a faithful account of the natural history of the country.
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It may also be said that the people who colonized these villages prepared the asphaltus, and carried on a useful trade in it.
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Several lakes are full of asphaltus, or a bitumen resembling it, as others are strongly impregnated with nitre.
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It would, however, be very natural for some Jews to amuse themselves with cutting a heap of asphaltus into a rude figure, and calling it
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Probably the asphaltus or bitumen was occasionally set on fire by the neighbouring people.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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