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▪ I. Venusian, a.1 rare.|vɪˈnjuːsɪən|
[f. L. Venusia (see below) + -an.]
Of or pertaining to Venusia, an ancient town in southern Italy, and birthplace of the poet Horace; hence used allusively.
1616B. Jonson Poetaster in Workes 310 And to his steps my Genius inclines, Lucanian, or Apulian, I not whether; For the Venusian colonie plowes either. 1875F. Arnold Our Bishops & Deans I. v. 289 But the Venusian adage is true how the generous wine evermore retains the early flavour which was accidentally imparted to it.
▪ II. Venusian, n. and a.2|vɪˈnjuːsɪən|
[f. Venus1 II + -ian.]
A. n.
1. Science Fiction. A supposed inhabitant of the planet Venus; also, the language spoken by such a being.
1874A. Blair Ann. 29th Cent. III. iii. 56, I suspected from the circumstances the frames of the Venusians were so constituted that sustenance was superfluous. 1897J. Munro Trip to Venus ix. 173 ‘The good of it?’ rejoined the Venusian; ‘it is beautiful, and gives us pleasure.’ 1927Spectator 24 Dec. 1127/1 It is the Venusians who record the Last Judgment. 1955W. Girvan Flying Saucers & Common Sense i. 15, I do not think it is because of a desire that I should be visited by Martians or Venusians. 1972P. Moore Can You Speak Venusian? xvi. 167 He is fluent in Venusian, Plutonian and Krügerian. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 May 36/4 There are several stories which insist on the..general nastiness of human beings, who thus take on the..role which used to be assigned to Martians and Venusians and the like in Fifties science fiction.
2. Astrol. A person born under the sign of Venus and thus supposedly subject to the influence of the planet. rare.
a1963L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) ii. 55 But the sensuality of the Kalendar Venusians is not of the violent ‘dark god’ type.
B. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the planet Venus or its supposed inhabitants.
1874A. Blair Ann. 29th Cent. III. iii. 58 At the first glimpse I received of Venusian waters, my admiration was taken by storm. Ibid., I now commenced the acquisition of the Venusian language. 1934Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. II. 4 It cannot be over-emphasised that Venusian life cannot be other than Venusian. 1956C. Simak Time & Again ix. 42 Earth news..was followed by Martian news, by Venusian news, by the column from the asteroids. 1968Times 12 Oct. 18/6 Further reason for doubting the radius of Venus..has emerged from a computer simulation of the Venusian atmosphere. 1982Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman 28 Feb. a–17/1 The first [space probe]..is expected to drop through thick Venusian clouds.
2. Astrol. Designating or pertaining to the movement or influence of the planet Venus. rare.
1913‘Sepharial’ Kabala of Numbers II. xii. 189 Suppose.. that a child is born when the influence of Venus is predominant, and the local mode of etheric vibration is what may be termed Venusian. 1924C. E. O. Carter Conc. Encycl. Psychol. Astrol. 30 Attractiveness is an essentially Venusian quality. Ibid. 81 In the horoscopes of poets and painters we see the faculty of artistic imagination denoted by the mixture of Lunar, Mercurial, and Venusian action. |