labyrinthic, a.
(læbɪˈrɪnθɪk)
[ad. late L. labyrinthic-us, a. Gr. λαβυρινθικ-ός, f. λαβύρινθος labyrinth.]
= labyrinthine, in various senses. labyrinthic cavity: the labyrinth of the ear. l. teeth (see quot. 1888).
| 1641 Vicars God in Mount 20 Its craft and labyrinthick intricacie [sc. of an oath]. 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVII. 529 The labyrinthic paths of hypothesis and fiction. 1811 Shelley St. Irvyne x, Thence was I led into a train of labyrinthic meditations. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 20 In that labyrinthic combination, each Part overlaps, and indents, and indeed runs quite through the other. 1836–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 536/2 In many fishes the labyrinthic cavity forms one with that of the cranium. 1875 Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 762/2 The complicated or labyrinthic structure exhibited by transverse sections of the teeth of typical Labyrinthodonts. 1888 Syd. Soc. Lex., Labyrinthic teeth, teeth which have numerous radiating, sinuous, vertical grooves, which penetrate their substance and interdigitate with similarly shaped processes of the pulp-cavity; as in the Labyrinthodon. |