† polaryadj.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 64 Vnder the two polary circles in the Heauen.

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course i. f. 9^v Eteroscians which haue their shadowes turned on thone side, inhabiting the temperate zones, betweene the Polarie, and Tropick circles.

1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood vii. viii. 243 The Polarie and Septentrionall Nations.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 181 The poor Inhabitants of the Moone have but a polary life.

1874 Overland Monthly June 526/2 Independent of the recognized motions of nutation and the precession of the equinoxes, all astronomers, from Hipparchus to those of the present period, have been cognizant of a slow polary movement of the earth.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii. 60 All which acquire a magneticall and polary condition, and being suspended, convert their lower extremes unto the North. View more context for this quotation

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 369 That the Polary Direction was altogether unknown unto the Ancients, is agreed by most.

1715 T. Creech tr. Lucretius Of Nature of Things (new ed.) II. 722 The Knowledge of the Loadstones polary Power and Direction to the North was unknown to the Antients.

1783 J. Beattie Diss. Moral & Crit. vii. 319 That the magnet attracts iron, was known to the ancients; but its power of giving polary direction to that metal was not found out till the thirteenth century.