Min. [f. CER-IUM + -INE; named (in Swedish) by Hisinger in 1815.] A variety of the mineral ALLANITE or cerium-epidote.
1814. Allan, Min. Nomencl., s.v. Cerium, Brown Oxide, Allanite, Cerin.
1868. Dana, Min. (1880), 286, s.v. Allanite, Cerine is the same thing … subtranslucent in thin splinters. Ibid., 289. Cerine occurs at Bastnäs in Sweden.
