constellated, ppl. a.
(ˈkɒnstəleɪtɪd)
[f. prec.]
† 1. Astrol. Fashioned under a particular ‘constellation’, or conjunction of planets, or bearing the mark of one. [So F. constellé (in Molière).]
constellated images: ‘images astronomically framed under certaine constellations to preserve from severall inconveniences: as under the signe of the Sun the figure of a Lion made in gold, against..dropsie, plague, fevers, etc.’ (Bp. Hall Cases Consc. (1649) iii. ii. 234).
| 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 176 Why should not the constellated vertue last so long as the substantiall matter lasts? Ibid. 346 Valens, understanding, by a constellated figure, that one should succeed him, etc. 1726 Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. II. 7 a, These things may be done by an Art, now lost, by means of little constellated images. 1837 Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar (1844) 213 Oxford folks..suppose that the constellated image will teach me to surround England with a wall of brass. |
2. Formed into, or set in, a constellation; clustered together as stars in a constellation.
| 1638–48 G. Daniel Eclog. i. 106 That verse which Tiber claimes, more glorious Then Po, constellated Eridanus. 1795–8 T. Maurice Hindostan (1820) I. i. vi. 204 The constellated sisters [Hyades]. 1796 Coleridge Relig. Musings I. 89 The constellated company of worlds Danced jubilant. c 1820 Shelley Question ii, Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that never sets. 1857 Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art ii. (1868) 156 These noble groups of constellated schools which I foresee arising in our England. |
b. Psychol. (See prec. 2 b).
| 1963 B. Ghiselin in Taylor & Barron Scientific Creativity i. 36 A creative product is intrinsically a configuration of the mind, a presentation of constellated meaning. |
3. Studded as with stars or constellations.
| 1767 A. Campbell Lexiph. (1774) 57 A..cerulean darkness had began to obumbrate the superficies of the constellated regions. 1819 Shelley Prometh. Unb. iv. 532 Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness. 1872 G. Macdonald Wilf. Cumb. III. xxi. 267 He is yet a star in the constellated crown of England. |