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Jovian, a. (n.)|ˈdʒəʊvɪən|
[f. L. Jovi-s Jove + -an: cf. L. Joviānus as a personal name, and obs. F. jovien (Palsgr.).]
1. Of, belonging to, of the nature of Jove; Jove-like.
1530Palsgr. 316/2 Jovyen of the nature of Jupiter, Jouien. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. iii. 185 Nay, shall a trencher slaue..magnificate Lewde Iouian lust? 1822–56De Quincey Confess. (1862) 126 A splendid pluralist..would never stoop from his Jovian attitude. 1893Times 5 Jan. 13/6 With Jovian recklessness he played with the artificial lightning which he generated. 1894Sir E. Sullivan Woman 70 Helen..is the only woman to whom a Jovian parentage is allowed.
2. Of or belonging to the planet Jupiter.
1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xliii. App. 175 The Jovian system... The motion of Jupiter's four moons or satellites. 1867–77G. F. Chambers Astron. viii. 769 Shadow of a Jovian satellite.
B. n. One who resembles or imitates Jove.
1598Marston Pygmal. v. 161 Would damned Iouians, be of all men praised, And with high honors vnto heauen raised?
Add:[B.] 2. An (imagined) inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.
1929S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xv. 209 Mary and Julius emerged with the supreme British condescension of Jovians or Neptunians visiting a minor planet. 1943R. Bradbury in Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. 90/1 The blue-skinned Jovian..said nothing. 1953A. C. Clarke in If May 15/1 We have never found any trace of what might be called a religion among the Jovians. 1976Sci. Amer. May 108/2 They would make for Jovians the same changes of shape that the moon makes for us Terrestrials. 1987Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Jan. 76/1 Christian Wolff calculated that the height of Jovians must be 13819/1440 Paris feet. |