![]() ![]() The carchedonius or chalcedonius is mentioned and moralized upon by a whole catena of writers, including esp. In interpreting the name in the Vulgate, which has the variant form carcedonious, the early writers identified it with a stone mentioneed by Pliny xxvii, where MSS have the variants carchedonia, charcedonia, calcedonia, calchedonia, carchedonius, said to be found in North Africa, and to be brought by way of Carthage, which, from the description, could have nothing to do with the chalcedony of the moderns. chalcedonious of Chalcedon in Asia Minor, as if it were 'Chalcedonian stone,' but this is very doubtful. is commonly assumed to be the same as the adj. The name of the precious stone forming the third foundation of the New Jerusalem, but found nowhere else For anyone interested, the OED also defines another sense of chalcedony as follows:.Severian describes a building's steps as made of chalcedony, during the cart chase with Agia.Most of the varieties were included by Plimy under his jappis. In modern lapidary work, chalcedony receives different names according to its chrysoprase, onyx, sard, etc. ![]() and references to earlier notions come down to the 17th. It is not safe to carry the modern application back before the 16th or at the earliest the 15th c. A precious (or semi-precious) stone, which in its various tints is largely used in lapidary work: a cryptocrystalline sub-species of quartz (a true quartz, with some disseminated opal-quartz), having the lustre nearly of wax, and being either transparent or translucent ![]()
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