[f. URAN-US + -IAN.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus.
1844. Smyth, Cycle Celestial Objects, I. 205. The Uranian astronomer must be well stationed for watching comets.
1866. Lockyer, Guillemin’s Heavens, 263. The simultaneous presence or absence of these bodies from the Uranian sky.
1870. Proctor, Other Worlds than Ours, vii. 167. During the long Uranian year.
1885. Agnes Clerke, Pop. Hist. Astron., 114. No further Neptunian or Uranian satellites can be perceived.
B. sb. An inhabitant of Uranus.
1870. Proctor, Other Worlds than Ours, vii. 168. For upwards of 20 years … the Uranians—if there are any—never see the small Uranian sun. Ibid. The year of the Uranians lasts 84 of our years.
