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satellitious

satellitious adjective: consiting of, or pertaining to, satellites.

Adjective

satellitious (comparative more satellitious, superlative most satellitious)

  1. (archaic) Consiting of, or pertaining to, satellites.
    • Since their Solidity and Opacity, the Similar Nature of their Orbits, and their Satellitious Attendance, their Revolutions about the Sun, and their Rotations about their Axes, their Gravitations and mutual Attractions, the Proportions of their Periods to their Diſtances from the Center of Motion...1715, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Religion: Natural and Revealed: […] Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion. Part I. […], 2nd edition, London...

Forms of satellitious

comparativemore satellitious
superlativemost satellitious

Questions about satellitious

What does satellitious mean?
Satellitious means consiting of, or pertaining to, satellites.
What part of speech is satellitious?
Satellitious is an adjective.

Words near satellitious in the dictionary

  1. satellitesimal
  2. satellitesimals
  3. satellitia
  4. satellitic
  5. satelliting
  6. satellitious
  7. satellitism
  8. satellitium
  9. satellitization
  10. satellitome
  11. satellitomes

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