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Heliacal

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Adjective

1. heliac, heliacal

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

Example Sentences:
'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)'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Heliacal

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adjective
heliacal rising

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Heliacal

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adjective
of or near the sun; solar; specif., designating the apparent rising, or setting, of a star or planet just after, or before, conjunction with the sun

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Heliacal

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adj.
Of or relating to the sun, especially rising and setting with the sun.

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