Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GRAN-IT'IC, a.

1. Pertaining to granit; like granit; having, the nature of granit; as, granitic texture.
2. Consisting of granit; as, granitic mountains. Granitic aggregates, in mineralogy, granular compounds of two or more simple minerals, in which only one of the essential ingredients of granit is present; as quartz and hornblend, feldspar and shorl, &c. Similar compounds occur, in which none of the ingredients of granit are present. Cleveland.