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单词 uranian
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Uraniann.1adj.2

Brit. /jᵿˈreɪnɪən/, U.S. /jʊˈreɪniən/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Uranus n., -ian suffix.
Etymology: < Uranus n. + -ian suffix.
A. n.1
An (imagined or hypothetical) inhabitant of the planet Uranus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [noun] > Uranus > inhabitant of
Uranian1834
1834 J. Chickering in J. V. C. Smith Sci. Tracts & Family Lyceum II. 137 On the contrary, the Saturnians or Uranians must have superior acuteness of vision.
1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours vii. 168 The year of the Uranians lasts 84 of our years.
1995 R. Belton Beribboned Bomb v. 166 A female medium who had professed to be able to communicate with Martians and Uranians and who had produced drawings of their alphabet and pictographs to ‘prove’ it.
2010 J. Culberson Quroak xix. 194 How far advanced are the Uranians over us in physics and engineering to pull off something like this?
B. adj.2
Of or relating to the planet Uranus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [adjective] > Uranus
Uranian1839
1839 Fantastical Excursion into Planets 179 Whilst I was thus regulating the Uranian climate..there lurked a very contemptuous grin in this very goblin's every feature.
1844 W. H. Smyth Cycle Celestial Objects I. 205 The Uranian astronomer must be well stationed for watching comets.
1885 A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 114 No further Neptunian or Uranian satellites can be perceived.
1936 Sci. Monthly June 565/1 Simon Newcomb..published important works on the Uranian and Neptunian systems.
1976 Isis 67 555 W. T. Carrigan..had been computing Uranian residuals for Lowell since 1905.
2002 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Feb. 57/2 Correlations of satellite positions and ring features occur in the Jovian, Uranian and Neptunian systems as well.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Uranianadj.1n.2

Brit. /jᵿˈreɪnɪən/, U.S. /jʊˈreɪniən/
Forms: 1600s Vranian, 1600s– Uranian, 1700s– Ouranian. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Ūrania , -an suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin Ūrania (see Urania n.) + -an suffix. Compare earlier uranical adj.In sense A. 1b after ancient Greek Ούρανία, epithet of Aphrodite; compare pandemic adj. 3. In senses A. 1c and B. after the reference to Aphrodite in Plato's Symposium (180d–e); compare uranism n.
A. adj.1
1.
a. literary and poetic. Relating to or befitting heaven; celestial, heavenly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective]
heavenisheOE
heavenlyOE
heavenlyOE
celestienc1330
celestialc1384
celestly1400
supernc1429
supernal1447
ethereala1522
celesticala1533
supermundal?1577
paradised1594
etherean1600
Uranian1600
superlunary1614
unearthlya1616
supermundane1623
superterrestrial1635
supralunary1635
pantheana1641
supramundane1662
ethereous1667
supermundial1678
superlunar1742
superterrene1755
unworldly1765
supraterrestrial1836
supralunar1851
other world1882
other-worldish1894
the world > the universe > space > [adjective]
apogeana1644
ultramundane1656
extramundane1661
super-aerial1664
outworldish1674
unterrestrial1745
transmundane1777
extra-terrene1843
cosmical1849
extra-telluric1868
extra-terrestrial1868
exterrestrial1870
cosmic1876
extra-tellurian1881
supermundane1883
Uranian1908
contraterrene1946
space-borne1952
space-borne1967
spacy1967
1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. D2 He bent his mind to pure Vranian vses.
1619 A. Gardyne Lyf William Elphinstoun 25 in Theatre Sc. Worthies (1878) That concord, loue, and peace..Ar suirelie..Uranian [printed Uraniah] and Diuine.
1730 A. Brice Freedom 55 Leave th' unfathomed Theme To Bless'd Uranian Paraclete Divine.
1818 P. B. Shelley Prose Wks. (1880) III. 21 Surrounded by sculptures of divine workmanship, he sees the earthly image of Uranian Love.
1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiii. 90 That old Italian, whose Uranian pride When his great prince had forfeited the skies, Built him another heaven.
1893 F. Thompson Poems 21 And parting from her, in me linger on Vague snatches of Uranian antiphon.
1908 G. G. A. Murray in R. R. Marett Anthropol. & Classics 68 A great proportion of our anthropological material is already to be found in prehistoric Crete..the stones, the beasts, the pillars, and the ouranian birds.
2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers iii. 86 The rapt votaries..lending a certain ‘Uranian’ luster to the atmosphere on board the Queen Mary, purposed..to portion their days at sea according to strict precepts of brahmacharya and vanaprastha.
b. As a distinctive epithet of Venus (or Aphrodite): heavenly, spiritual. Contrasted with pandemian adj., pandemic adj. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to or associated with Venus
Venerean1575
venereous1592
Uranian1736
1736 Universal Hist. I. i. ix. 919 That this Uranian or celestial Venus of the Assyrians was the moon, cannot be doubted, by the rank she holds next to Bel, or the sun.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature III. 301 Genuine Liberty, offspring of all-protecting Jove, and sister of Uranian Venus.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) i. 23 Over him [sc. Cupid] Uranian Venus hung.
1904 L. Tracy Rainbow Island viii One might almost fancy her ladyship the Moon appearing on the scene as a Uranian Venus.
1989 A. W. Price Love & Friendship Plato & Aristotle 226 Pausanias, whose distinction between Uranian and Pandemian Aphrodite is more clearly alien to us.
2005 J. Chytry Cytherica vii. 128 Amor divinus corresponds to the Cytherean or Uranian Venus and is to be identified with the faculty of nous or intellectus.
c. Homosexual; pederastic; spec. (of poetry) expressing an admiration for male youth. Cf. uranism n. Now chiefly historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective] > homosexual
inverted1870
Uranian1883
homosexual1892
homogenic1894
camp1910
homosex1913
queer1914
homoerotic1915
homosexualist1920
homo1923
faggoty1928
tapette1930
fag1932
gay1934
so1937
same-sex1938
faggy1949
ginger beer1959
that waya1960
that way inclineda1960
ginger1965
minty1965
pink1972
leather1990
1883 J. A. Symonds Probl. Greek Ethics xiii. 43 Then he turns to the Uranian love.
1893 J. A. Symonds in Spirit Lamp 3 ii. 29 Thou standest on this craggy cove, Live image of Uranian Love.
1898 O. Wilde Let. ?18 Feb. (1962) 705 To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble.
1914 E. Carpenter Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk 11 Inversion in some form was regarded as a necessary part of social life, and the Uranian man accorded a certain meed of honour.
1975 P. Fussell Great War & Mod. Mem. viii. 294 The effect of the revision is to efface indications of the poem's Uranian leanings, to replace the pretty of 1913 with the nasty of 1917.
2001 J. J. Kripal Roads Excess, Palaces Wisdom ii. 132 Hallāj thus becomes..a uranian or satanic lover of God in the memories of the earliest Hallajians.
2. Of or relating to Urania, muse of astronomy in classical mythology; dedicated to Urania.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of other classical deities
Palladian1562
Demogorgonian1569
Minerva-like1598
Trophonian1603
Latonian1605
Minerval1610
Uranian1656
vertumnal1705
Psychean1828
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. iii. 201 Euclide..was set upon by some under the Uranian Porch.
1820 P. B. Shelley Milton's Spirit 2 I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and took From life's green tree his Uranian lute.
1885 J. S. Blackie Lett. to Wife (1909) 333 I paid worship to the Uranian muse.
2003 J. M. Rhodes Eros, Wisdom, & Silence iv. 236 One must gratify and preserve orderly men and bring the disorderly to the Uranian Eros of the Uranian Muse.
3. Of or relating to astronomy; astronomical. Chiefly in titles. Now historical and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > cosmology > astronomy > [adjective]
astronomical1551
astrological1576
uranical1585
astronomic1613
Uranian1762
uranological1815
uranoscopic1817
uranic1862
1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 i. 194/2 Crabtree, whom Horrox had, by letter, invited to this Uranian banquet [sc. the observation of the transit of Venus, 1639].
1832 G. Frost & W. Frost (title) Uranian guide; or, outline celestial atlas.
1839 (title) Uranian Society: this society is established for the advancement of Astronomical Science.
2005 K. Anderson Predicting Weather ii. 71 In July 1839 an offshoot, the Uranian Society, was founded to openly discuss the question of planetary influence.
B. n.2
A homosexual man; a pederast. Cf. sense A. 1c and urning n. Now chiefly historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person
urning1883
invert1892
homosexual1894
Uranist1895
homosexualist1898
Uranian1908
intersexualc1910
homoerotic1915
homo1923
one of those1927
freak1941
homophile1945
gay1953
consenting adult1957
minty1957
lesbigays1992
1908 E. Carpenter Intermediate Sex i. 13 One may safely say that the defect of the male Uranian, or Urning, is not sensuality—but rather sentimentality.
c1910 ‘X. Mayne’ Intersexes vii. 173 An appreciable influence in developing early Uranism is the fact that the tutor..may be an Uranian of pederastic inclinations.
1946 G. W. Allen Walt Whitman Handbk. i. 72 A frank discussion of Whitman as one of those ‘sports’ in nature which sex pathologists call ‘Uranians’.
1975 P. Fussell Great War & Mod. Mem. viii. 283 A less respectable..tradition of homoeroticism was that of the so-called Uranians, a body of enthusiastic pedophils.
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Mar. 27 A man might feel: Oh my god, I'm an invert, a Uranian, an Urning—or whatever.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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