canicular

American  

[kuh-nik-yuh-ler] / kəˈnɪk jə lər /

adjective

Astronomy.

1. pertaining to the rising of the Dog Star or to the star itself.

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canicular British  

/ kəˈnɪkjʊlə /

adjective

1. of or relating to the star Sirius or its rising

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Etymology

Origin of canicular

Middle English, late Old English < Late Latin canīculāris of Sirius, equivalent to Latin Canīcul ( a ) Sirius ( cani ( s ) dog + -cula -cule ¹ ) + -āris -ar ¹

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Example Sentences

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canicular

Some days after the canicular holidays,–precisely when, a year previous, the poor prisoner had entered on his new office with so many philanthropic hopes,–that rumor came forth like a pestilential cloud out of the session-chambers.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul

The canicular weather I suffered from in the south followed me even here.

From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks

So that henceforth let no man feare to take either easie purgatives, or other inward Physicke, in the time of the canicular, or dog-dayes.

From Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain by James Rutherford

It was midsummer, but no words and no experience of other places can convey an idea of the canicular heat of Jerusalem.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

And now in the torrid heat of summer, the canicular days being at hand, the furnaces in the glass-house of the said Angelo have been extinguished.

From Marietta A Maid of Venice by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

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