heliacal

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Brugsch states that the appearance of the said new moon, which was also associated with the heliacal rising of Sirius, would range from Aug.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

Dog-days, the name applied by the ancients to a period of about forty days, the hottest season of the year, at the time of the heliacal rising of Sirius, the dog-star.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

Sothic, sō′thik, adj. of or pertaining to the dog-star Sothis or Sirius.—Sothic cycle, or period, a period of 1460 years; Sothic year, the ancient Egyptian fixed year, according to the heliacal rising of Sirius.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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 Pike, Albert

At Dedan and Saba it was thirty-six days, from the beginning of the aphanism, i.e., the disappearances of these stars, to the heliacal rising of Aldebaran.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert