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adjective

Meteoric adj.

Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.

Influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions.

Flashing; transient and brilliant, like a meteor (3); as, meteoric fame. "Meteoric politician."

Meteoric iron, Meteoric stone. (Min.) See Meteorite.

Meteoric paper, a substance of confervoid origin found floating in the air, and resembling bits of coarse paper; so called because formerly supposed to fall from meteors.

Meteoric showers, periodical exhibitions of shooting stars, occuring about the 9th or 10th of August and 13th of November, more rarely in April and December, and also at some other periods.

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Etymology of 'Meteoric'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Meteoric" Quotes from Famous Books

... and a Gold Chain Ten Times round his Neck, a Sword in his Hand, and two pair of Pistols hanging at the End of a Silk Sling, which was flung over his Shoulders, according to the Fashion of the Pyrates" (p. 213). His meteoric career of piracy lasted but ...

— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various

... are a puzzle to yourself, you poor little chrysalis," said Ella, putting the meteoric feathers playfully down upon the serious face of Phyllis—its seriousness was apparent beneath the light of the carriage lamp. "No, don't make the attempt to explain anything to me. Don't try to reconcile your frankness now with your pretense ...

— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore

... under the horses, perfectly satisfied that the whole rush was a passing property in the air, which may have left something to eat behind it. They look upon old shoes, wrecks of kettles and saucepans, and fragments of bonnets, as a kind of meteoric discharge, for fowls to peck at. . . . Gaslight comes quite as natural to them as any other light; and I have more than a suspicion that, in the minds of the two lords, the early public-house at the corner has superseded the sun. They always begin to crow when the public-house ...

— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

... the meteoric heralds of danger, had begun to regret his obstinacy. He saw that a ...

— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

... the Chippeway legends, on the shores of Lake Superior) found fragments of the pure copper of that region, beat them into shape, and the art of metallurgy was begun; iron was first worked in the same way by shaping meteoric ...

— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

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