单词 | planetic |
释义 | planeticadj. 1. Astronomy and Astrology. Of, relating to, or caused by a planet or planets; = planetary adj. 1a, 1b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < adj.1631 |
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