jocular forms of aeronaut and ‘aeronautation,’ f. AIR, Go, in allusion to argonaut.
1784. H. Walpole, Corr. (1837), III. 354. You know how little I have attended to these airgonauts. Ibid. A sort of meditation on future airgonation, supposing that it will not only be perfected but will depose navigation.
