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aeronautic, a.|ˌeɪərəʊˈnɔːtɪk, ˌɛərəʊ-|
[f. prec. + -ic; cf. Gr. ναυτικ-ός pertaining to sailing.]
Of or pertaining to aeronauts, or to aerial navigation; sailing the air.
1784Hibernian Mag. Sept. 489/2, I shall..attempt a description of his [sc. Richard Crosbie's] Aeronautic Chariot. 1826Miss Mitford Our Village Ser. ii. (1863) 402 The announcement of the aeronautic expedition drew at least ten thousand gazers into the good town. 1876M. Collins Blacksm. & Scholar I. viii. 197 The aeronautic art will not be perfected until the flight of birds is more carefully studied. 1878Daily News 24 Oct. 6/4 The threads of the gossamer or aeronautic spider may be now seen. 1908H. G. Wells War in Air iv. §1 The Emperor forgave him and placed him in control of the new aeronautic arm of the German forces. Ibid. xi. §2 None of these countries had prepared for aeronautic warfare on the magnificent scale of the Germans. 1918E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 9 Aëronautic Maps, maps showing the contours and configuration of the land as closely as possible to the way it looks to the aviator from the air.
Hence ˌaeroˈnautica n. pl. [mod.L., see aeronautics], matters or facts of aeronautics.
1753[see aeronautics]. 1838T. M. Mason (title) Aeronautica. 1883Catal. Pat. Off. Libr. II. 4 (title) Aëronautica Illustrata. A complete Cabinet of Aërial Ascents and Descents from the earliest period. |