Entry date

• Quotation evidence from 1619 (first cited in John Bainbridge).
• OED includes about 7700 entries first evidenced in the decade 1610—1619 (words such as computer, magnetic, plug).

Timeline of entries in the OED

(Based on the first date of each entry. The date of this entry is indicated by the black line.)

Origin

• comet
• -ary

Entry size

• 2 senses.
• 1 subentry.
• 17 quotations.

Timeline of sense development

Entries which link here

2 entries

• cometic, adj.
• cometical, adj.

Links from this entry

4 entries

• -ary, suffix1
• comet, n.
• cometic, adj.
• planetary, adj. and n.