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When insufficiently burnt, however, it is brown, and dries badly; or if too much burnt, it becomes cineritious, opaque, and faint in hue.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

But it would be equally absurd to presuppose that these several functions can be disarranged for months, without more or less disorganisation of the medullary, or even of the cineritious, matter of the encephialon.

From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles

The first is small in quantity, and principally concerned in the food and reproduction of the animal, and the cineritious in a great measure the register of the mind.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

These ganglia are composed of a mixture of cineritious and medullary matter, and are supposed to be productive of peculiar nervous power.

From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin

Yet I remember that even he, on one occasion, spoke of the cinnerian matter of the brain, usually termed the cineritious.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward