Definition of "Arctic"

What neede the artick people loue star-light,To whom the sunne shines both by day and night.

1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, (please specify the page)

[…] on th’ other sideIncenc’t with indignation Satan stoodUnterrifi’d, and like a Comet burn’d,That fires the length of Ophiucus hugeIn th’ Artick Sky, and from his horrid hairShakes Pestilence and Warr.

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 706-711

See FREEDOM smiling thro’ the realms of frost,And glow on Labradore’s inclement coast,Tho’ darkness sheds deep night thro’ half the year,And snow invests the clime,—that clime is dear,For there fair LIBERTY resides, and thereAt large the native breasts the searching air,Where blows the arctic tempests icy gale,And famine seizes on the spermy whale,

1788, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Humanity, or the Rights of Nature‎, London: T. Cadell, Book 2, p. 96

A medical examination determined who was to be sent on to Norilsk in the Arctic.

1968, Robert Conquest, “A Nation in Torment”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties‎, Macmillan Company, page 327

‘Could you close that window, please!’ Strickland called, dialling again. ‘It's bloody arctic down this end.’

1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 45

I’ve visited the world from arctic to ecliptic, as a surgeon does a hospital, and find all men sick of some distemper […]

1772, Richard Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover‎, London: W. Griffin, act IV, page 46