planetarily
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]planetarily (comparative more planetarily, superlative most planetarily)
- In a planetary manner or context; like planets.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made […]