Arcturan adj.
of or relating to the Arcturus system or its inhabitants
Also Arcturian, Arcturean.
Demonyms
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1866 The Lion’s Mouth in Californian 17 Nov. 9/1
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No doubt, when our world forms one of a ‘shower of stars’, visible by the inhabitants of the northern portion of Arcturus, the Arcturian ladies will exclaim, ‘Dear! how pretty!’ and never trouble their heads with thinking how we feel.
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1920 A Voyage to Arcturus (1946) 28
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David Lindsay
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Well, if that journey were a possible one, and I were given the chance of making it, I would be willing never to come back. For four-and-twenty hours in that Arcturian planet, I would give my life.
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1945 The Reader Speaks in Thrilling Wonder Stories Spring 6/1 (editorial introduction)
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Sergeant Saturn
Brillig is no word for the Arcturean lapis lazuli toves in which ye Sarge finds himself at present.
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1950 The Lion & the Lamb in Astounding Science Fiction Sept. 9/2
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Fritz Leiber
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‘I believe I’ve pulled him through this attack,’ the Spaniard from Arcturus Quattuor replied, drifting closer. … ‘Ah!’ the Arcturan Spaniard said quickly, ‘But suppose she’d been space-wrecked; broken open, say, by a big meteorite.’
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1964 Escape Across the Cosmos iii. 42
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Gardner F. Fox
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There were clothes, too, Rigel silks and Arcturan cottons, cloaks of cloth-of-gold and wool, sandals of the finest leather available.
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1979 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy xxv. 127
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Douglas Adams
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The Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler could talk all four legs off an Arcturan MegaDonkey—but only I could persuade it to go for a walk afterwards.
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1986 Starskimmer (Amazing Stories #5) xi. 156
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John Gregory Betancourt
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One didn’t get a Patrol captain mad and expect him just to roll over and play dead like some Arcturan bunny.
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1991 Redemption of Light 98
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Kathleen M. O'Neal
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
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It made Cole feel as if he clung by his fingertips over the gaping maw of a fire-breathing Arcturian flame cat.
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2002 Operation Audacity (BattleTech #55) v. 60
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Blaine Lee Pardoe
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I am Felix Blucher of the Fifteenth Arcturan Guards.
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2012 Interview with a Robot Heresiarch in J. R. Macumber et al. Explorers: Beyond the Horizon (Dead Robots’ Society) 80
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C. J. Paget
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There’s a certain inevitability that some processes will be the same between Arcturean and Terran lifeforms.
Research requirements
antedating 1920
Earliest cite
David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus
Research History
The 1979 Adams ‘Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy’ quot. is linked to a page image of a 1992 edition, but the quot. itself has been checked against the printed copy of the 1979 ed.
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