a. [f. Gr. ἀπόγαι-ος far from the earth (see APOGEE) + -IC.] = APOGEAN.
1839. Lady Lytton, Cheveley, II. ix. 299. That when this enterprising and apogæic old lady had gone up so high … she went still farther, even to the moon.
1880. P. Greg, Across Zodiac, I. ii. 44. The lunar angle … confirmed the reading of the discometer, giving the same apogaic distance or elevation.
