heliacal
Example Sentences
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The Sothiac period, or that cycle in which the heliacal rising of Sirius passed the whole civil year, and took place again on the same day, was of 1461 years, not 14,601.
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary
The first day of the Muhammadan month Jamada' l akhir, corresponding to the heliacal rising of the moon on that occasion, was Saturday, May 19.
From A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India by Sewell, Robert
The Muhammadan month begins with the heliacal rising of the moon, and this may have taken place on the 24th or 25th evening.
From A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India by Sewell, Robert
He must mean either the heliacal or achronical rising of that sign.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John
If therefore Ilioneus, according to our supposition, understand the heliacal rising of Orion, Anna must mean the achronical, which the different epithets given to that constellation seem to manifest.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John
