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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the planet Saturn or to its supposed astrological influence.
- adj. Archaic Of or relating to the god Saturn or his reign.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the god Saturn, or to his reign, alleged to be “the golden age”; hence, happy; distinguished for purity, integrity, and simplicity.
- Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn.
- Dăbū nt mălū m Mĕtḗllī [or Mĕtḗllī] || Nǣv îō pŏētǣ
- as an iambic line consisting of two members (cola) separated by a cesura. Such a verse was compared by Macaulay (Introd. to “Lays of Ancient Rome”) to the nursery rime
- Thĕ quēen | wăs īn | hĕr pār | lour || ēatĭng | brēad ănd | hōnĕy.
- Others (and this is now the prevalent opinion) regard the Saturnian verse as purely accentual:
- Dábunt málum Metélli [or Métellí] || Náeviō poétæ.
- In entomology, pertaining or related to the Saturniidæ.
- n. A saturnian moth; a member of the Saturniidæ.
Wiktionary
- adj. Related to the planet Saturn.
- adj. Related to the Roman god Saturn.
- adj. Dour, baleful or sullen facial expression.
- n. science fiction An inhabitant of the planet Saturn.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Roman Myth.) Of or pertaining to Saturn, whose age or reign, from the mildness and wisdom of his government, is called the
golden age . - adj. Hence: Resembling the golden age; distinguished for peacefulness, happiness, contentment.
- adj. (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn.
- n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of large handsome moths belonging to Saturnia and allied genera. The luna moth, polyphemus, and promethea, are examples. They belong to the Silkworn family, and some are raised for their silk. See Polyphemus.
Examples
“The Romans alfo (as nature is the fame in all places) though they knew nothing of thofe Grecian demi-gods, nor had any communication with Greece, yet had cer - tainly young men, who, at their feftivals, danced and fung after their uncouth manner, to a certain kind of verfe, which they called Saturnian: what it was, we have no certain light from antiquity to difcover; but we DEDICATION.”
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“But the abandonment of the Saturnian was the abandonment of a tradition five centuries old.”
“Roman ballads were in what is called Saturnian meter, which depends on stress and accent; it is not unlike the meter of the”
“Hence (1) the rude rhythmical effusions, which contained the early Roman story, might be called Saturnian, not with reference to their metrical law, but to their”
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
“Arcady is a kind of Saturnian realm, and "mixtures" elsewhere”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
“This module is dropped and chemical propulsion is used to decelerate into Saturnian orbit and to maneuver within that planetary system.”
“Cassini (if you haven't been gawking at all the fabulous Saturn pictures like you should) is a mission that has been studying the Saturnian system (planet and rings and moons ... oh my!)”
“The only survivors were those living off-planet at the time – on the Moon, Mars, the Saturnian and Jovian systems… Over the course of a number of stories and three novels, Varley fleshed out a future history in which humanity struggles to survive – using gifted alien technology – on the various inhospitable worlds of the Solar system.”
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“They speak Saturnian (composed of odd looking English letters), and erratically use the words "boing," "ding," and "zoom".”
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“When the firstborn son of a Saturnian priest succumbed to the illness, the distraught man rallied the population to join him in accusing Felicita and her sons of bringing down the wrath of the gods upon them.”
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