geodætical

English

Adjective

geodætical

1. Archaic form of geodetical.
   • 1824, John Malcolm, A Memoir of Central India, second edition, Volume II., page #315:

     With respect to the actual survey itself, you are aware that among the objects of my late tour, independent of the great addition to the stock of materials, one of the principal was, by making a circuit of Malwa, to form a skeleton map, founded on astronomical observations combined with the most minute and careful geodætical survey *, with magnetic bearings and perambulator distances.