Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cause to resemble porphyry.
  • To grind with a muller upon a slab of porphyry, as painters' colors. Also spelled porphyrise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted like porphyry.

Etymologies

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Compare French porphyriser.

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