a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling, anthracite.
1845. Lyell, Trav. N. Amer., I. 88. The anthracitic coal-measures.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1865), II. VII. vi. 305. The Duke … blushed blue, then red … at length settling into a steady pale, as it were, indicating anthracitic white-heat.
