heliacally, adv.
(hɪˈlaɪəkəlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In the way of heliacal rising or setting: see prec. 1.
| 1589 Fleming Virg. Georg. i. 8 note, Cosmically not heliacally: for these two, rising and setting are ascribed to the stars. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xiii. 222 From the rising of this [the dog-] starre, not cosmically, that is, with the Sun, but Heliacally, that is, its emersion from the rayes of the Sunne, the Ancients computed their canicular dayes. 1834 Nat. Philos., Astron. vii. 169/2 (U.K.S.) The age of Hesiod..may be determined by the fact that he mentions that Arcturus rose heliacally sixty days after the winter solstice. |