1602 tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido i. sig. D3^v If within as farre as Sunne doth see To'th mightie Moone and starres Titanian fame [It. A l'ampia luna à le Titanie stelle] A liuing spright doth fill, With his male valew this same vast degree.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. i. §6. 7 The Moones bright Globe, and Starres Titanian.

1708 J. Gay Wine 5 Phœbus sheds Titanian Rays, And paints their Fleecy skirts with shining Gold.

1788 R. Cumberland Observer IV. xcv. 22 The rebel sun..Scatters his bold Titanian fires around.

1849 tr. Virgil Aeneid vi, in Boston Investigator 28 Nov. The lucid globe of the moon and the Titanian stars.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. iv. 10 The Thracians,..when it lightens or thunders, begin with a Titanian revenge [Fr. une vengeance titanienne] to shoote against heaven.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 198 As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born. View more context for this quotation

1776 J. Bryant New Syst. III. 76 All these were of the Giant, or Titanian race.

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. i. 100 Titanian fabrics, Which point in Egypt's plains to times that have No other record.

1865 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 26 June Its dimensions are Titanian, the size in the lowermost level ranging from 20 to 40 feet.

1964 Times 11 Feb. 12/6 Titanian rounds of cyclamen, onions as big as the Taj Mahal.

1813 tr. G. H. von Langsdorff Voy. & Trav. I. i. 3 A few miles from Falmouth is a small village called Manacha, which has its name from mechanite or titanian-sand [Ger. Titansand]. To get the mineral pure, great pains must be taken to wash it well from the sand.

1814 tr. G. H. von Langsdorff Voy. & Trav. II. i. 16 Along the flat coast is a black, shining, hard sand, very probably an iron or Titanian sand, which appears to me to be in truth a sort of powdered lava.

1864 G. P. Marsh Man & Nature v. 478 He describes dunes in Jutland, composed of yellow quartzose intermixed with black titanian iron.

1930 Amer. Mineralogist 15 572 Titanium—titanian.

1967 Amer. Mineralogist 52 780 Zr also has been reported in amounts up to a few weight percent in titanian andradite (melanite).

1995 Mineral. Mag. 59 115 In titanian andradite, it is usual that titanium is mainly in the octahedral position replacing ferric iron and the ferric iron in the tetrahedral position replacing the silicon.

2016 Earth Sci. Rev. 161 39/2 Titanian ferrocolumbite was described by Černy..from beryl-bearing F-impoverished pegmatites.

1938 Astounding Sci.-Fiction Sept. 46/1 He hoped to find a large forest somewhere with wood that would burn in the Titanian atmosphere.

1953 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 12 124 The supply of power for a Titanian base was considered with the possibility of mining radio-active ores.

1974 New Scientist 7 Nov. 429/1 The composition of the Titanian interior may be approximately 60 per cent of a solution of ammonia in water.

2006 K. W. Plaxco & M. Gross Astrobiol. x. 238 The Titanian atmosphere consists predominantly of nitrogen gas, with only a few percent methane.