Full record for Tellurian adj.

Definition	relating to Earth
OED requirements	antedating 1930
Earliest cite	Gawain Edwards, "A Rescue From Jupiter"
Comment	David Tate submitted a cite from a 1962 reprint of C.S. Lewis' "Perelandra". Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a 1972 reprint of E.E. Smith's "Triplanetary". Rick Hauptmann submitted a 1931 cite from Miles Breuer and Jack Williamson's "The Birth of a New Republic". Cory Panshin submitted a cite from a 1968 reprint of E.E. Smith's "Skylark Three". Cory Panshin submitted a cite from a 1968 reprint of Charles Cloukey's "Paradox"; we would like to check the 1929 original appearance in Amazing Quarterly. Daniel Frankham submitted a cite from a 1974 reprint of Percy Greg's "Across the Zodiac"; we would like to check the 1880 first edition. Jeff Prucher submitted a 1930 cite from Gawain Edwards "A Rescue From Jupiter". Fred Galvin submitted a 1967 cite from Alan Schwartz's "The Wandering Tellurian" The OED has non-sf usages dating back to 1846.
Last modified	17 June, 2009

Citations for Tellurian adj.

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1930 ‘G. Edwards’ in Sci. Wonder Stories Feb. 778/1	I spread my wings and brought it here to you, as swiftly as I could pass through the Tellurian air.
1944 C. S. Lewis Perelandra (1962) 15,	I did not doubt the existence of the things he had met in Mars—the Pfifltriggi, the Hrossa, and the Sorns—nor of these interplanetary eldila. I did not even doubt the reality of that mysterious being whom the eldil call Maleldil and to whom they appear to give a total obedience such as no Tellurian dictator can command.
1967 A. Schwartz Wandering Tellurian 5	As with most Tellurian ghettos, the enclave on Lhonz 4 kept an academy, a building with two floors, in contrast to the habitations surrounding it. It was solid and impressive, built of native red stone and furnished with the usual heavy tapestries and large fireplaces found in the ghetto. Lhonz 4 was a small, cold world, hereditarily inhabited by humanoids more notable for their hirsuteness than for their doubtful attractiveness. Relations between the locals and the sons of Tellus, the death merchants, were strictly on a cash basis. But the Tellurians had to make do with Lhonz. Few worlds relish the establishment of a race with a reputation for viciousness and undoubted possession of weapons in advance of anything in the galaxy.
1968 ‘C. Cloukey’ in Amazing Stories Sept. 112/1	The time-wave, that mysterious force which travels through time, the fourth dimension, will be discovered in the year 2806, just after the second terrible Martio-Tellurian War.