aerian

Adjective

aerian (not comparable)

1. (rare) Of or belonging to the atmosphere or to the air; aerial.
   • Figure to yourself an extensive suite of rooms, long galleries and passages, the ceilings, or rather the beams, in such aërian perspective, as nearly to evade the sight; the walls literally bare and green, from damp; the pavement more rugged than Berkeley-Square, and I believe has not been cleaned...1776, Lady Anna Riggs Miller, Letters from Italy
   • "We provoke cough," says Schwilgué, "to favour the expulsion of foreign bodies introduced from without into the aërian tube, and especially of liquids; we have recourse to it to favour the expectoration of mucus, of membraniform concretions, and of pus, which have accumulated in the aërian...1842, Jonathan Pereira, The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics