Sarmatic, a.
(sɑːˈmætɪk)
[Formed as prec. + -ic.]
= Sarmatian a.; in quot. 1723 = Polish.
Sarmatic polecat, the Mottled Polecat, Putorius sarmaticus. (In recent Dicts.: cf. Sarmatian weasel.)
| 1723 Mather Vind. Bible 402 In Poland..when the priest was about to pronounce the words of the Gospel at the altar, the noblemen drew their swords in part out of the scabbards..: a Sarmatick sacrament. |
b. Geol. (See quot.)
| 1874 Geol. Mag. July 325 Newer Tertiary beds—the three stages of the Vienna Tertiaries occur, the Marine, the Sarmatic, and the Congeria beds, but they are not always separately mapped. |