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Definition of Stellify
1. v. t. To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven.
Definition of Stellify
1. Verb. (transitive mythology) To transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such ¹
2. Verb. (transitive astronomy) To turn into a star. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stellify
1. to convert into a star [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stellify
Literary usage of Stellify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"To stellify. To make into a star, to make glorious. And therefore non- the Thracian
Orpheus' lyre, And Hercules himself, are stellify'd. ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"stellify, ». To make into a star ; to make glorious. ... By him who seeks to
stellify her name. Drayt., Legend of Matilda. STELLING, s. ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Yes parde," quod he, " wost thou why, For whan thou redest poetry, How the goddes
can stellify ..."
4. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"Besides having the native word, we have borrowed freely from Greek and Latin:
stellar, stellate, stellify, constellation; aster, ' the star-flower,' ..."
5. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"Besides having the native word, we have borrowed freely from Greek and Latin:
stellar, stellate, stellify, constellation ; aster, ' the star-flower,' ..."
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