The various senses of the sb. solary given by Blount Glossogr. (1656) are merely copied from Cooper’s Thesaurus s.v. Solarium (two entries). In the second ed. of Sir T. Browne’s Pseud. Ep. VI. xii. solary is a misprint for salary.
1. Of or belonging to, pertaining to, connected with, the sun.
1588. J. Harvey, Disc. Probl., 117. The euent of the said Solarie defect shal be but according to the quantity of the Eclipse it self.
1602. Dolman, La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618), III. 721. So likewise doth the shadow of the earth hinder the moone of the solary illumination.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. iv. 345. For, beside the solary Iris which God shewed unto Noah there is another Lunary.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., Pref. 16. The Solary Atoms of light.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. Diss. Physic, 29. Their Statues were … adorn’d with Solary Rays, and crown’d at last with Celestial Beams.
b. Of time: = SOLAR a. 1 b.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. iii. § 6. 255. Ve Adar was an intercalarie Moneth, added … to make the Solarie and Lunarie yeare agree.
1615. H. Crooke, Body of Man, 336. That is called a Solarie moneth wherein the Sunne runneth through thirty degrees of the Zodiacke.
1697. Prideaux, Life Mahomet (1716), 73. The Mahometan Year falling eleven Days short of the Solary.
c. (See quot.)
1651. French, Distill., vi. (1653), 182. There is found a certaine stone in Bononia, which some call a golden Marcasite, some a solarie Magnes, that receives light from the sun in the day time, and gives it forth in the dark.
2. Alch. and Astrol. Of the nature of the sun; subject to the influence of the sun.
1605. Timme, Quersit., I. xi. 47. There are starres which haue their most colde and moyst spirites;… others, most hote and drie, as the Solarie, and Martialls.
1642. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., I. 96. That mysticall mettle of gold, whose solary and celestiall nature I adore.
1651. French, Distill., vi. (1653), 183. Crude gold … is by them not only called Solary but Sol … the Sun it selfe.
1671. Blagrave, Astrol. Physick, 156. I do usually cause the patients to wear a select number of solary herbs gathered at the hour of the Sun.
3. Pre-eminent like the sun.
1651. French, Distill., Ded. (1653), A iij. This Art of Alchymie is that Solary Art, which is more noble then all the other six Arts, and Sciences.
