solary
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[edit]solary (comparative more solary, superlative most solary)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to the sun; solar.
- 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, section 50, page 108:
- I vvould gladly knovv hovv Moſes vvith an actuall fire calcin'd or burnt the Golden Calfe unto povvder, for that myſticall metall of Gold, vvhoſe ſolary and celeſtiall nature I admire, expoſed unto the violence of fire, grovveth onely hot and liquifies, but conſumeth not: […]
- 1650, Thomas Browne, “V.23”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the sun doth not dance on Easter-day. […] Whether any such motions there were in that day wherein Christ arose, Scripture hath not revealed, which hath been punctual in other records concerning solary miracles […]
- 1676 January 25, Isaac Newton, An Hypothesis Explaining the Properties of Light Discoursed of in My Several Papers:
- […] they that will may also suppose that this spirit affords, or carries with it thither, the solary fuel, and material principle of light […]