Full record for subetheric adj.
| OED requirements | antedating 1940 |
| Earliest cite | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Comment | Jeff Prucher submitted a 2003 cite from Theodore Sturgeon's 1957 "The Pod in the Barrier". Fred Galvin submitted a 1946 cite from Ross Rocklynne's "Distress Signal". Fred Galvin submitted a 1955 cite from Isaac Asimov's "The Talking Stone". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1954 reprint of Robert Donald Locke's "Dark Nuptial"; Mike Christie verified the cite in the 1953 original. |
| Last modified | 20 August, 2009 |
Citations for subetheric adj.
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| 1938 J. Williamson Legion of Time in Astounding Sci.-Fiction May 22/2 | Mere probability is all that is left. And my first actual invention was a geodesic tracer, designed for its analysis. It was a semi-mathematical instrument, essentially a refinement of the old harmonic analyzer. Tracing the possible world-lines of material particles through Time, it opened a window to futurity‥Here is the chronoscope‥The latest development of the instrument. Scansion depends upon a special curved field, through which a sub-etheric radiation is bent into the time-axis, projected forward, and reflected from electronic fields back to the instrument. A stereoscopic image is obtained within the crystal screen, through selective fluorescence to the beat frequencies of the interfering carrier waves projected at right angles from below. |
| 1940 R. A. Heinlein Let. 23 Feb. in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 7 | I would be interested in taking a crack at your idea of scientists going insane over the uncertainty of truth in the ‘sub-etheric’ field. |
| 1940 R. A. Heinlein Let. 23 Feb. in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 7 | I would be interested in taking a crack at your idea of scientists going insane over the uncertainty of truth in the ‘sub-etheric’ field. |
| 1944 ‘W. Long’ Circle of Confusion in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Mar. 46/2 | These stations warped space by the maintenance of subelectronic charges that produced a subetheric gradient which bent the usable radiations of Sol into a focus. The fact that they were points in space instead of mighty, million mile rings of metal to carry the space-warping charge made the focus of Sol irregular, but it served its purpose and men grew used to the scintillating sun. |
| 1948 G.O. Smith Trans-Galactic Twins in Thrilling Wonder Stories June 14/1 | And instead of trying to reach the stars, he had been trying to communicate between the several inhabited planets by subradio. Did he know anything about sub-etheric wave propagation? |
| 1955 I. Asimov Talking Stone in Mag. Fantasy & Sci. Fiction Oct. 114/1 | They're saving power, hoping they'll get picked up. Right now, they're putting everything they've got into a sub-etheric call, I'll bet. |
| 1993 B. Shaw Dimensions (1994) 7 | The familiar subetheric voice belonged to Ozzy Drabble, one of Pearce's oldest friends among the Oscars. |