ADJECTIVE
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pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun
the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)
the heliacal rising of the Dog Star
How To Use heliacal In A Sentence
- The Greeks and Romans, with fairly useless calendars, continued to depend upon observing the heliacal risings and settings of stars.
- All ancient astrologers placed the greatest significance upon heliacal risings and settings and ancient Mesopotamian astrology was also heavily predisposed to observance of this kind of planetary phenomena.
- It is possible that all the planetary orbs originate from an early attempt to record heliacal obscurity.
- the heliacal rising of the Dog Star
- the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)
- Swart star: the Dogstar, called swarthy because its heliacal rising in ancient times occurred soon after midsummer. Notes: Book Second. Palgrave, Francis T