Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a comet or comets; of the nature of a comet.
  • noun A cometarium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet.

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  • adjective relating to comets

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  • adjective of or relating to or resembling a comet

Etymologies

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comet +‎ -ary

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Examples

  • Seriously, we need to do an edit of each show with your tweets as subtitled cometary to the show.

    SPARTACUS: episode 4 hradzka 2010

  • Catholic France spurned him, and Jurieu, the great Reformed divine, called his cometary views "atheism," and tried hard to have Protestant Holland condemn him.

    A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

  • Filaments of material at the periphery are cooler strands of gas, called cometary knots - each about as long as the Solar System is wide.

    Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2012

  • While they may look tiny, these strands of molecular hydrogen - known as cometary knots - are each about the size of

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • This was no easy lift like the one from Luna to Mars; in choosing to take a 'cometary' or fast orbit to the Hallelujah the Stones had perforce to accept an expensive change-of-motion of twelve and a half miles per second for the departure maneuver.

    The Rolling Stones Heinlein, Robert A. 1952

  • It is certain that a loosely agglomerated mass (such as cometary nuclei most likely are) must gradually separate through the unequal action of gravity on its various parts -- through, in short, solar tidal influence.

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

  • Even a Nobel Prize winner can hatch an ignoratio elenchi, as evidenced by Laughlin's essential argument: because the climate has been and will continue to be controlled on geologic time scales by natural processes, such as changes in the Earth's orbit and cometary impacts, the climate is "beyond our control" and "the climate ought not concern us too much when we are gazing into the energy future."

    Bill Chameides: Red Herring Alert: Planet Earth Does Not Need a Care Package Bill Chameides 2010

  • Even a Nobel Prize winner can hatch an ignoratio elenchi, as evidenced by Laughlin's essential argument: because the climate has been and will continue to be controlled on geologic time scales by natural processes, such as changes in the Earth's orbit and cometary impacts, the climate is "beyond our control" and "the climate ought not concern us too much when we are gazing into the energy future."

    Bill Chameides: Red Herring Alert: Planet Earth Does Not Need a Care Package Bill Chameides 2010

  • Even a Nobel Prize winner can hatch an ignoratio elenchi, as evidenced by Laughlin's essential argument: because the climate has been and will continue to be controlled on geologic time scales by natural processes, such as changes in the Earth's orbit and cometary impacts, the climate is "beyond our control" and "the climate ought not concern us too much when we are gazing into the energy future."

    Bill Chameides: Red Herring Alert: Planet Earth Does Not Need a Care Package Bill Chameides 2010

  • Even a Nobel Prize winner can hatch an ignoratio elenchi, as evidenced by Laughlin's essential argument: because the climate has been and will continue to be controlled on geologic time scales by natural processes, such as changes in the Earth's orbit and cometary impacts, the climate is "beyond our control" and "the climate ought not concern us too much when we are gazing into the energy future."

    Bill Chameides: Red Herring Alert: Planet Earth Does Not Need a Care Package Bill Chameides 2010

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