Usage examples (17)

• He has explored portions of that continent as far down as the azoic rocks, and made many important discoveries as to the past life of the globe.
• Scientists long ago clung to the "azoic hypothesis" about the deep -- the presumption that nothing could possibly be alive so far from the photosynthetic world.
• The obelisks are all formed of granite, the foundation-stone of the globe, belonging to the oldest azoic formation, which laid down the first basis for the appearing of...
• Murchison, Sir R.: on the formations of Russia, 289. on azoic formations, 307. on extinction, 317.