a. and sb. [ad. L. Argonauticus: see prec. and -IC.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Argonauts. B. sb. a. An Argonaut. b. A poem concerning the Argonauts.

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1583.  Watson, Poems (Arb.), 133. The Argonauticks of Apollonius.

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1614.  Selden, Titles Hon., 42. When the Argonautiques came to Chiron’s Den.

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1794.  Sullivan, View Nat., II. 443. Newton supposed the Zodiac to relate to the Argonautic expedition.

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1846.  Grote, Greece, I. xiii. (1869), I. 248. The Argonautic legend.

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