a. [f. prec. + -IC; cf. Gr. ναυτικ-ός pertaining to sailing.] Of or pertaining to aeronauts, or to aerial navigation; sailing the air.
1826. Miss Mitford, Our Village, Ser. II. (1863), 402. The announcement of the aeronautic expedition drew at least ten thousand gazers into the good town.
1876. M. Collins, Blacksm. & Scholar, I. viii. 197. The aeronautic art will not be perfected until the flight of birds is more carefully studied.
1878. Daily News, 24 Oct., 6/4. The threads of the gossamer or aeronautic spider may be now seen.
