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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Copernican

/kəp-ẽrn'-ək-ən/ · Co·per·ni·can · IPA /kəpˈɜrnəkən/
01 a. Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican…
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    Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.