cometic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The author argues against cometic astrology with great ability.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
Some have theorized that the sun is maintained by the fall of cometic matter into it.
From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
The sunbeams pass as readily through the entire thickness of the cometic substance as they do through our own highly permeable atmosphere.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Robert Chambers
But the scattered cometic bodies which returned to the sun's neighborhood in 1668 and 1887 speak probably of millions of years which have passed since first this comet was formed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various
This," said Ben, pointing to one of the dark lines in the cometic spectrum, "this is produced by the vapor of carbon in the nucleus of the heavenly visitant.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Ambrose Bierce
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