"asphaltic" meaning in English

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          "text": "asphaltic concrete; asphaltic sediment",
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          "ref": "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 as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 293-298:",
          "text": "The aggregated Soyle\nDeath with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,\nAs with a Trident smote, and fix’t as firm\nAs Delos floating once; the rest his look\nBound with Gorgonian rigor not to move,\nAnd with Asphaltic slime,",
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        {
          "ref": "1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, Canto 4, lines 275-276, in The Botanic Garden, London: J. Johnson, p. 166, On mouldering piles amid asphaltic mud [the pilgrim]",
          "text": "Hears the hoarse bittern, where Gomorrah stood;"
        },
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 8:",
          "text": "[…] the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,",
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        "Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt or bitumen."
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          "word": "bituminous"
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          "sense": "containing asphalt",
          "word": "asfaltowy"
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          "ref": "1619, Stephen Jerome, Origens Repentance, London: Roger Jackson, Section 2, p. 29:",
          "text": "As Sodomes Apples, neere th’Asphalticke lake,\nOf specious shew, yet touch’t, to ashes turning,\nSo are sinnes poysons sweete, yet bane to take;",
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          "ref": "1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas, London: R. Dodsley, Book 3, lines 349-354, p. 93:",
          "text": "[…] who gather from the fragrant shrub\nThe aromatic balsam, and extract\nIts milky juice along the lovely side\nOf winding Jordan, till immers’d it sleep\nBeneath the pitchy surface, which obscures\nTh’ Asphaltic lake.",
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        "(obsolete) Of or relating to the Dead Sea (salt lake between Jordan and Israel)."
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          "text": "Hears the hoarse bittern, where Gomorrah stood;"
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          "text": "As Sodomes Apples, neere th’Asphalticke lake,\nOf specious shew, yet touch’t, to ashes turning,\nSo are sinnes poysons sweete, yet bane to take;",
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          "text": "[…] who gather from the fragrant shrub\nThe aromatic balsam, and extract\nIts milky juice along the lovely side\nOf winding Jordan, till immers’d it sleep\nBeneath the pitchy surface, which obscures\nTh’ Asphaltic lake.",
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