Also ouranik. [f. L. ūran-us, Gr. οὐραν-ός heaven, + -IC 1. Cf. med.L. ūranic-us.] Astronomical, celestial.
1865. in Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XII. xii. Drawing accurately ‘his [the Pope’s] Meridian Line,’ on I know not what telluric or uranic principles, no doubt with great accuracy, ‘between Portugal and Spain.’
1883. R. Brown, Eridanus, 44. There is another ouranik and doubtless preconstellational stream, namely the Via Lactea.
