[ad. mod.L. striāt-us, f. L. stria: see STRIA and -ATE2. Cf. F. strié.] Marked or scored with striæ, showing narrow structural bands, striped, streaked, furrowed.
The earliest examples relate to the hypothesis of Descartes, as to the ‘striate’ or channelled condition of the constituent particles of matter.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 684. Though Cartesius would needs imagine this Earth of ours once to have been a Sun, and so it self the Centre of a lesser Vortex; whose Axis was then Directed after this manner, and which therefore still kept the same Site or Posture, by reason of the Striate Particles, finding no fit Pores or Traces for their passage thorough it, but only in this Direction.
a. 1706. Evelyn, Hist. Relig. (1850), I. 15. Des Cartes … will have God contribute nothing more to the creation of the world, than the whirligig of innumerable vortices, globes, and striate particles.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., I. xiv. (1765), 37. Striate, streaked.
1777. Robson, Brit. Flora, 263. Equisetum fluviatile.… Stem striate.
1805. [S. Weston], Werneria, 26. This stone … is in texture foliate, And partly striate.
1822–9. Good, Study Med. (ed. 3), I. 346. The long thread worm is … beneath, smooth; finely striate on the fore-part.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 94. Trifolium hybridum…. Standard twice as long as the calyx, striate.
1876. J. G. Jeffreys, in Ann. & Nat. Hist., Ser. IV. XVIII. 252. The rest of the lower valve is free and concentrically striate.
