aeonicadj.

1829 Spirit of Pilgrims Aug. 452 Can it be probable, then, that Aeonic punishment and Aeonic life, are used by the New Testament writers to denote spiritual punishment and spiritual happiness?

1856 T. Greenwood Cathedra Petri I. i. iv. 96 The Diabolus..was this very Demiurgus in person, whose children..were for ever shut out from the Pleroma, or residence of æons and æonic beings.

1883 Harper's Mag. Sept. 622/1 Such a period of æonic sleep may have been requisite for the evolution.

1904 Methodist Rev. Sept. 707 And is it seriously insisted that this being, this creature of Godlike genius, man, is the product of evolution? that back somewhere in eonic time his ancestral line sprang from an inarticulate germ?

1924 H. E. Fosdick Mod. Use Bible 251 A world where all moral living is only an accidental episode in an æonic physical process.

1932 Discovery Apr. 108/1 They [sc. palæontologists] make the very dry bones live, reconstructing ancient scenes of the aeonic drama.

1978 I. Kesarcodi-Watson & I. Kesarcodi-Watson tr. V. Lossky Orthodox Theol. ii. 62 This aeonic eternity is stable; it is what makes the world coherent and intelligible. Sensible and intelligible, time and aeon cling together, for, both having a beginning, they are commensurables.

2003 New Statesman (Nexis) 11 Aug. There is much to dislike about Walt Disney..but during these aeonic school summer holidays, I can only kiss the feet of his memory.