asphaltic

Adjective

asphaltic (comparative more asphaltic, superlative most asphaltic)

1. Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt or bitumen.
   • asphaltic concrete; asphaltic sediment
   • The aggregated Soyle
     Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,
     As with a Trident smote, and fix’t as firm
     As Delos floating once; the rest his look
     Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move,
     And with Asphaltic slime,1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

   Synonyms:

   bituminous

2. (obsolete) Of or relating to the Dead Sea (salt lake between Jordan and Israel).
   • As Sodomes Apples, neere th’Asphalticke lake,
     Of specious shew, yet touch’t, to ashes turning,
     So are sinnes poysons sweete, yet bane to take;1619, Stephen Jerome, Origens Repentance, London: Roger Jackson, Section 2, p. 29
   • […] who gather from the fragrant shrub
     The aromatic balsam, and extract
     Its milky juice along the lovely side
     Of winding Jordan, till immers’d it sleep
     Beneath the pitchy surface, which obscures
     Th’ Asphaltic lake.1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas, London: R. Dodsley, Book 3, lines 349-354, p. 93