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

The Sothiac period, or that cycle in which the heliacal rising of Sirius passed the whole civil year, and took place again on the same day, was of 1461 years, not 14,601.

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

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 Williams, Edward Huntington

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