Definition of Meteorec
Me`te*or"ic (?), a. [Cf. F.
météorique.] 1. Of or
pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as,
meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.
2. Influenced by the weather; as,
meteoric conditions.
3. Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a
meteor; as, meteoric fame. "Meteoric politician."
Craik.
Meteoric iron, Meteoric stone.
(Min.) See Meteorite. -- Meteoric
paper, a substance of confervoid origin found floating
in the air, and resembling bits of coarse paper; -- so called because
formerly supposed to fall from meteors. -- Meteoric
showers, periodical exhibitions of shooting stars,
occuring about the 9th or 10th of August and 13th of November, more
rarely in April and December, and also at some other
periods.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Of or pertaining to a meteor.
- Like a meteor in speed, brilliance, or ephemeralness.
- Madeline Albright's meteoric rise to power ended with the divorced, foreign-born mother-of-three becoming US Secretary of State.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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