Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying within the orbit of the planet Mercury.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Astron.) Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- .
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- adjective astronomy Between the planet
Mercury and thesun .
Etymologies
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intra- + Mercurial
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Examples
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If there were, indeed, an intramercurial planet, then it must occasionally cross between the earth and the sun, and might now and then be expected to be witnessed in the actual act of transit.
Great Astronomers 1876
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His patient ambush was laid for a possible intramercurial planet, which, he thought, must sooner or later betray its existence in crossing the face of the sun.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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