heliacal

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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

This period, measured thus by the heliacal rising of Sothis, is spoken of as the Sothic cycle.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington

I do not see how the heliacal rising of Sirius in any one year could help them to determine its length.

From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary

He must mean either the heliacal or achronical rising of that sign.

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John

They also possessed lists of the fixed stars, and drew up tables of the times of their heliacal risings.

From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir