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adjective

Planetary adj.

Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.

Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.

(Astrol.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours."

Caused by planets. "A planetary plague."

Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life."

Planetary days, the days of the week as shared among the planets known to the ancients, each having its day.

Planetary nebula, a nebula exhibiting a uniform disk, like that of a planet.

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Etymology of 'Planetary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Planetary" Quotes from Famous Books

... features revealed no trace of the idea—or of any other idea. The Planetary State of Haurtoz had been organized some fifteen light-years from old Earth, but many of the home world's less kindly techniques had been employed. Lack of complete loyalty to the state was likely to result in a siege of treatment that left the subject suitably "re-personalized." ...

— The Talkative Tree • Horace Brown Fyfe

... was responsible for patrolling an enormous area, including hundreds of stars and their planetary systems—yet its territory was only a tiny segment of the galaxy. Landings were to be made at various specified planets maintaining permanent clinic outposts of Hospital Earth; certain staple supplies were carried for each ...

— Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse

... slaughtered and boiled in a huge black cauldron. The "pile of large rounded boulders" bearing "cut Sinaitic inscriptions" (p. 423) are clearly Wusum: these tribal-marks, which the highly imaginative M. de Saulcy calls "planetary signs," are found throughout Midian. The name of the Wady is, I have said, not El-Ithem, but El-Yitm, a very different word. Lastly, the "Mountain Eretowa," or "Ertowa" (p. 404), is probably a corruption of El-Taur (El-Hisma), the "inaccessible wall" of the plateau, which ...

— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton

... are sentenced to be taken in to space beyond planetary limits, together with all material used by you in the furtherance of your criminal acts. There you shall be placed into a spacesuit containing sufficient oxygen for one hour of life, and no more. You and your contaminated possessions shall then be released into ...

— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey

... thing happening in space, a planetary moment, the faint smudge, the slender whirl of meteor, drawing nearer to this planet,—this planet like a ball, like a shaded rounded ball, floating in the void, with its little, nearly impalpable coat ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

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