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 makespotted like porphyry.
Etymologies
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Compare French porphyriser.
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