heliacal
adjective
pertaining to or occurring near the sun, especially applied to such risings and settings of a star as are most nearly coincident with those of the sun while yet visible.
heliacally
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a word derived from
heliacal.
Example Sentences
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And, on the very morning after the achronical departure of the last star of the Husbandman, Aldebaran rose heliacally, and became visible in the East in the morning before day.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Stars rise and set cosmically, achronically, heliacally with the Sun, 471-m.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
A Star sets heliacally, when no longer remaining visible above the Western horizon after sunset, the day arrives when they cease to be seen setting in the West.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
He is tempestuous in the summer, when he rises heliacally; and rainy in the winter, when he rises achronically.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
Then the Stars of Taurus had declined Westward, and Virgo was rising heliacally.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
