satellitious
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
satellitious (comparative more satellitious, superlative most satellitious)
- (archaic) Consiting of, or pertaining to, satellites.
- 1715, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Religion: Natural and Revealed: […] Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion. Part I. […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XV, page 208:
- Since their Solidity and Opacity, the Similar Nature of their Orbits, and their Satellitious Attendance, their Revolutions about the Sun, and their Rotations about their Axes, their Gravitations and mutual Attractions, the Proportions of their Periods to their Diſtances from the Center of Motion, the equable Deſcription of Area's in equal Times. Since, I ſay, all theſe and many more particulars are exactly the ſame in our Earth, and the other Planets vvith their Satellits, it is not improbable that they may be alike in other things, and that they may have Inhabitants both rational and irrational, […]
Further reading[edit]
- “satellitious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.