Selenite2
[f. Gr. σεληνίτης (pl. σεληνῖται men in the moon), f. σελήνη moon.]
A supposed inhabitant of the moon.
| c 1645 Howell Lett. (1655) III. ix. 18 The sphear of the Moon is peepled with Selenites or Lunary men. 1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 268 Leaving the new Baronets to search for land amongst the Selenits in the Moon, or turn Knights of the Sun. 1864 T. W. Webb in Intell. Observer V. 200 Gruithuisen fancied that certain rows of hillocks might contain the habitations of Selenites! |