planetical

planetical

English

Etymology

planet +‎ -ical

Adjective

planetical (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of planetary
   1. Pertaining to the planets and/or their motions.
      • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:

        Of this figure Plato made choice to illustrate the motion of the soul, both the world and man: while he delivereth that God divided the whole conjunction length-wise, according to the figure of a Greek X, and then turning it about reflected it into a circle; by the circle implying the uniform motion of the first orb, and by the right lines, the planetical and various motions within it

      • 1881, John Aubrey, ‎James Britten, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 114:

        ... that white specks p'sage our felicity, blude ones misfortunes; that those in ye nail of ye thumb have significations of honour, those in ye forefinger of riches, and so respectively in other fingers (according to the planetical relations from whence they receive their names), as Tricassus hath taken up and Picciolus well rejecteth.

   2. Relating to the earth; terrestrial.
      • 1904, The Geographical Journal - Volume 24, page 414:

        They are stated to be the circles of unequal or planetical hours, or one-twelfth part of the time between sunset and sunrise, the division of the night in common use in early times.

      • 2001, The Ben Jonson Journal: BJJ., page 283:

        Thus when a person says, "I fear a dog," Morton writes, a person may mean that "he is afraid of the household dog ... or to be drowned and so devoured of the sea dog, or to go mad by the poisonous influences of the planetical dog.

   3. Global.
      • 1891, Thomas Fuller, ‎John Eglington Bailey, ‎William Edward Armytage Axon, The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller, D.D., 1631-1659:

        He has also a characteristic rebuke of "planetical" preachers, who were not to be restrained to one parish, but must spread their talents over a whole province or principality.