Mercutian

1. archaicnot comparableliteratureSynonym of Mercurian (“of or relating to the planet Mercury”).

   Aside from the vegetation which they were so methodically blasting, the Mercutian tetrahedra—for such Professor Hornby swore they were and such we later found them to be—had not yet come into real contact with the life of our planet, much less its master, Man.

   1931 November, P. Schuyler Miller, “Tetrahedra of Space”, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Wonder Stories, volume 3, number 6, page 738

   Synonyms: Mercurian

plural Mercutians

1. archaicliteratureSynonym of Mercurian (“inhabitant of the planet Mercury”).

   Synonyms: Mercurian

1. archaicliteratureSynonym of Mercurian (“hypothetical language spoken on Mercury”).

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   He drilled in the idea of rain, until he was sure he had made his point, securing various Mercutian expressions of disgust and dislike. He found a word for “rain”—really coined one, for it did not seem to exist in Mercutian. It was a combination of “water” and “up,” so as to be quite clear, with a double-ruffle of emphasis to characterize it.

   1931 November, P. Schuyler Miller, “Tetrahedra of Space”, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Wonder Stories, volume 3, number 6, page 738

   Synonyms: Mercurian

1. not comparableliteratureRelating to or characteristic of Mercutio, a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1597).

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   It includes also the ‘black-mistress’ sonnets, in which Shakespeare puts himself, as in defiance of courtly compliment to women, in intimate and sarcastic situations, and some half-dozen Mercutian indecencies, better confined to the frivolous circle of their birth or the privacy of the artist’s sketchbook.

   1938, Edgar I. Fripp, “The Inns of Court and Chancery” (chapter 36), in Shakespeare: Man and Artist, volume 1, London: Oxford University Press, published 1964, →OCLC, page 254