heliacal
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The heliacal rising of Orion is at present computed to be about the 6th of July; and about that time it is that he either causes or presages tempests on the seas.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John
On the ceiling of the Memnonium at Thebes the heliacal rising of Sirius is represented under the form and name of Isis.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
The heliacal rising of Canopus was also a precursor of the rising of the Nile.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
In Egypt, another reason was, that then the Nile began to overflow, at the heliacal rising of Sirius.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
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
