English

Adjective

Cornelian ‎(comparative more Cornelian, superlative most Cornelian)

1. Pertaining to Pierre Corneille, or characteristic of his tragedies
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 8,

     Nick tried for a while to talk to Emile about scrap metal, which tested his Cornelian French to the limits […]

Translations

English

Cornelian

Noun

cornelian ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cornelians)

1. (mineralogy) Alternative form of carnelian
   • 1726, The British Apollo: containing two thousand answers to curious questions in most arts and sciences, serious, comical, and humorous, approved of by many of the most learned and ingenious of both universities, and of the Royal-Society, volume 1, 3 edition, the Bell in Little Britain: printed for Theodore Sanders, page 67:

     This proceedeth from the variety of air (commonly found in islands) which sometimes being moist, sullies and renders the cornelian pale or albescent, after the manner of glass, which when breath'd upon, is clouded with a pale whitish colour, but upon change to a drier air, which will often happen in a moment, the cornelian recovers its former brisk red colour.

References

1. ↑ James D. Dana: Dana's System of Mineralogy. Volume III Seventh edition, revised by Clifford Frondel. John Wiley & Sons, 1962