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Definition of Heliac
1. Adjective. 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)"
Definition of Heliac
1. a. Heliacal.
Definition of Heliac
1. Adjective. (alternative form of heliacal) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heliac
1. heliacal [adj] - See also: heliacal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heliac
Literary usage of Heliac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1781)
"The heliac fetting^ÓÍ that ... the ibrs., in the head of the Hydra, rofe wijl»
a heliac appearance, ... aiwa\.s accompanied the heliac riung of the ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1781)
"... who, by the a£Ift- ance of fire, killed the Lernaean Hydra. The heliac fetting
of that ... rofe with a heliac appearance, ... accompanied the heliac ..."
3. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1849)
"This is, I take it, a reference to what astronomers call the "heliac rising" of
the dog star. ... The last time it can be seen is called its "heliac rising. ..."
4. The Origin of Laws, Arts, and Sciences, and Their Progress Among the Most by Antoine-Yves Goguet, Alexandre-Conrad Fugère (1775)
"When the heliac ... Thus it was only after 1461 Egyptians years, equivalent to
1460 Julian years, that the heliac ..."
5. Tammuz and Ishtar: A Monograph Upon Babylonian Religion and Theology by Stephen Langdon (1914)
"For as far as we have seen the descent of Ishtar probably coincides with the
disappearance of this star, or the period between her ' "; heliac setting and ..."
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