The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glassite \Glass"ite\, n. A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is ``no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding.'' The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.
Wikipedia
Glassite may refer to:
- A transparent material akin to glass
- An alternative spelling of the Glasite religious movement
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Usage examples of "glassite".
They were of stiffened metallic fabric, with spherical glassite helmets whose oxygenators started automatically when they were closed.
Her face was unafraid as she smiled at him through her glassite helmet.
Lalla Dee had stopped by the transparent glassite wall of the deck, and Crane saw that she was still shivering.
He drew from his pocket a metal tube and took out of it a glassite vial filled with a yellow, fluffy substance.
The stuff covered the helmets and space-suits of Rab Crane and Lalla Dee but could not penetrate through their air-tight glassite suits.
Outside his glassite window he could see the awed and excited crowd which had assembled to witness the departure.
The dome roof, with the glassite windows rolled back now, rose in a mound peak to cover the highest middle portion of the vessel.
A broad level shelf hung midway up the cliff, and upon it Grantline had built his little group of glassite dome shelters.
Fifty feet behind it, connected by a narrow passage of glassite, was a similar though smaller structure.
He stood up now, surveying the blue lit glassite room with its low ceiling close overhead.
The figure of Wilks went with slow bounds over toward the back of the ledge where the glassite shelter housed the treasure.
I recall that I finally beat on the glassite pane with my bullet projector until the weapon was bent and useless.
He turned, walked away from the huge glassite dome-port set like a great round eye in the smooth black metal of the tower wall.
Following on swift, lithe tentacles of metal came two ungainly monstrous things, topped by glassite cases in which rested two naked throbbing brains.
The stuff, a chemical combination known only to Doc, was a sort of glassite that had unbelievable strength for its weight and thinness.