heliacal
Example Sentences
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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 Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
In that connection there are three kinds of them, cosmical, achronical, and heliacal, important to be distinguished by all who would understand this ancient learning.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
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 Robert Sewell
He must mean either the heliacal or achronical rising of that sign.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
This is what is technically known as the "acronical rising" of the Pleiades, their rising at sunset; in contrast to their "heliacal rising," their rising just before daybreak, which ushered in the spring time.
From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder
