interstellary

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ stellary

Adjective

interstellary (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of interstellar.
   • 1874, Temperature of Earth & Space, page 94:

     In 1870 W. Mattieu Williams published his very ingenious work entitled The Fuel of the Sun, in which, apparently without any knowledge of what had been written before with regard to an interstellary medium, he attempts to find therein the source of solar heat […]

References

• “interstellary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.