heliacal
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Swart star: the Dogstar, called swarthy because its heliacal rising in ancient times occurred soon after mid-summer. moist vows: either tearful prayers, or prayers for one at sea.
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave
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 festivals were marked by the periodical return of certain astronomical phenomena, and those heliacal risings to which any mythological ideas were attached, were noted with great care.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
The more precise fixing of new year's day was accomplished through observation of the time of the so-called heliacal rising of the dog-star, Sirius, which bore the Egyptian name Sothis.
From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams
In about a month, followed the Stars of the Husbandman; the chief of them, Ras, Mirach, and Arcturus, being very nearly simultaneous in their heliacal rising.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
