a. [f. STALACTITE + -IC + -AL.] = prec.
1770. Lloyd, in Phil. Trans., LXI. 253. Some small stalactitical drops hanging from the roof.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XII. 72/2. Stalactitical gypsum. Gipsum sinter.
1833–4. J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 767/2. Calcedony … sometimes appears in a stalactitical form hanging downwards. Ibid. (1869), Vesuvius, iii. 65. With a channelled surface and stalactitical shapes.
Hence Stalactitically adv.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 384. From whence calcareous particles may be deposited stalactitically.
