Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or belonging to the ground.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Solar.

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  • adjective obsolete Pertaining to the sun; solar.

Etymologies

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From Latin solaris + -ary.

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Examples

  • I would gladly know how Moses, with an actual fire, calcined or burnt the golden calf into powder: for that mystical metal of gold, whose solary and celestial nature

    Religio Medici 2007

  • For that mysticall metall of gold, whose solary and celestiall nature

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Players were supposed to channel the spirits by touching "solary projectors" on the sides of the board, and it helped to chant "Pax, sax, sarax, hola, noa, nostra," while the marble was spinning.

    mental_floss Blog 2009

  • Moses with an actual fire calcined or burnt the Golden Calf unto powder: for that mystical metal of Gold, whose solary [125] and celestial nature I admire, exposed unto the violence of fire, grows onely hot, and liquifies, but consumeth not; so, when the consumable and volatile pieces of our bodies shall be refined into a more impregnable and fixed temper like Gold, though they suffer from the action of flames, they shall never perish, but lye immortal in the arms of fire.

    Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

  • β€œIn that late solary eclipse which happened on Christmas day, when the Moone was just under the Sunne, I plainly discerned that in her which may clearely confirme what the Comets and Sunne spots doe seeme to prove, _viz. _ that the heavens are not solid, nor freed from those changes which our aire is liable unto, for about the Moone I perceived such an orbe of vaporous aire, as that is which doth encompasse our earth, and as vapours and exhalations, are raised from our earth into this aire, so are they also from the Moone.”

    The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643

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