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单词 planetic
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planeticadj.

Brit. /pləˈnɛtɪk/, /pləˈniːtɪk/, U.S. /pləˈnɛdɪk/
Forms: 1600s planeticke, 1600s planetique, 1600s–1700s planetick, 1700s– planetic.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin planeticus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin planeticus wandering (5th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek πλανητικός wandering, of or relating to a planet < ancient Greek πλανητός wandering, used occasionally of planets ( < πλανᾶν to lead astray, in passive to wander (see planet n.) + -τός , suffix forming verbal adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French †planetique (1679; earlier in Middle French as plannetique (1531; 15th cent. in a text from Namur in sense ‘suffering from insanity’: compare planet-struck adj.)). Compare earlier planetical adj.In sense 3 probably after diplanetic adj.
1. Astronomy and Astrology. Of, relating to, or caused by a planet or planets; = planetary adj. 1a, 1b. Now rare.
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the world > the universe > planet > [adjective]
planetical?a1563
planetary1593
planetal1624
planetic1631
planetarian1652
planeted1745
planetocentric1856
preplanetary1869
protoplanetary1957
1631 A. Townshend Tempe Restored 9 The Beames and Influences are Of Constellations, whose Planeticke sway, Though some foresee, all must alike obey.
1704 C. Povey Holy Thoughts on God made Man xi. 159 We should make account that every Star is incircled with its planetick World.
1759 New Univ. Hist. Arts & Sci. I. 269/1 As to the number of heavens, Tycho's partisans admit of three, viz. the Empyreum, the Firmament, and the Planetick.
1786 G. McCalman Crit. Inq. Motion of Sun 58 As to any planetic reflection of solar light, it is no more probable than that the light of one candle is reflected by that of another.
1889 Harper's Mag. June 77/2 His [sc. Mesmer's] followers elaborated ridiculously minute directions for applying the planetic and telluric fluid, and the rest of their self-invented paraphernalia.
2000 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 1 Jan. Neptune and Pluto..have been locked in planetic competition which threatens to break out into outright war this millennium.
2. figurative. Given to wandering, erratic; volatile. Cf. planetary adj. 2. Obsolete.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical
startfulmood?a1300
wildc1350
volage?a1366
gerfulc1374
geryc1386
wild-headeda1400
skittishc1412
gerish1430
shittle1440
shittle-witted1448
runningc1449
volageous1487
glaikit1488
fantasious1490
giggish1523
tickle or light of the sear?1530
fantastical1531
wayward1531
wantona1538
peevish1539
light-headed1549
humoral1573
unstaid1579
shittle-headed1580
toy-headed1581
fangled1587
humorous1589
choiceful1591
toyish1598
tricksy1598
skip-brain1603
capricious1605
humoursome1607
planetary1607
vertiginous1609
whimsieda1625
ingiddied1628
whimsy1637
toysome1638
cocklec1640
mercurial1647
garish1650
maggoty1650
kicksey-winseya1652
freakish1653
humourish1653
planetic1653
whimsical1653
shittle-braineda1655
freaking1663
maggoty-headed1667
maggot-pated1681
hoity-toity1690
maggotish1693
maggot-headeda1695
whimsy-headed1699
fantasque1701
crotchetly1702
quixotic1718
volatile1719
holloweda1734
conundrumical1743
flighty1768
fly-away1775
dizzy1780
whimmy1785
shy1787
whimming1787
quirky1789
notional1791
tricksome1815
vagarish1819
freakful1820
faddy1824
moodish1827
mawky1837
erratic1841
rockety1843
quirkish1848
maggoty-pated1850
crotchetya1854
freaksome1854
faddish1855
vagrom1882
fantasied1883
vagarisome1883
on-and-offish1888
tricksical1889
freaky1891
hobby-horsical1893
quirksome1896
temperamental1907
up and down1960
untogether1969
fanciful-
fantastic-
1653 Z. Coke Art of Logick Ep. Ded. sig. a1v By it are confuse things made Distinct; Abstruse, Obvious: And the Planetick thoughts to act Concentrick, and in its Sphere.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 242 The Weather-Cock Brains of a Restless and Planetick Arian.
1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Planeticus..of or belonging to a planet; wandering; erratic: planetic.
1894 C. S. Peirce Let. 1 Jan. in R. B. Perry Thoughts & Char. W. James (1935) II. 414 You might term them ‘volatile’ and ‘sessile’; or, after Homer,..‘winged’ and ‘unwinged’; or, if you want Greek, ‘planetic’ and ‘aplanetic’.
3. Biology. Of, relating to, or designating a dispersal stage in certain fungi and algae, involving motile cells or spores or (in later use) the transfer of nuclei between cells.
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1909 Bot. Gaz. 48 325 It manifests..the tendency, under certain conditions of existence which prevent the zoospore from seeking a host cell by the normal planetic method, to migrate in the form of a true mycelial tube.
1933 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 20 46 The genera Dictyuchus, Brevilegnia, Thraustotheca, and Calyptralegnia are supposed to have one real planetic stage, which corresponds to the second one in Saprolegnia.
1984 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81 5420/1 These ‘planetic’ nuclei are transmitted by being cut off into specialized cells (conjunctor cells) that fuse with an adjacent host cell, thereby delivering parasite nuclei..into host cell cytoplasm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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