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Webster 1913 Edition

Porphyre

Por′phyre

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Noun.

Porphyry.

[Obs.]

Locke.

Definition 2024

porphyre

porphyre

English

Noun

porphyre

Obsolete form of porphyry.
- John Locke
  Let us consider the red and white colours in porphyre: hinder light but from striking on it, and its colours vanish; it no longer produces any such ideas in us […]