Crossword-Solution: HELIACAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heliacal | a. | Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HELIACAL | anagram | ACHILLEA |
We have 5 clues for the answer “HELIACAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Near the sun, in astronomy. | 1 answer |
| Occurring near the sun | 1 answer |
| Near the sun. | 2 answers |
| Relating to the sun | 2 answers |
| Solar ___ | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZEMAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HELIACAL (5)
The more precise fixing of new year's day was accomplished through observation of the time of the so-called heliacal rising of the dog-star, Sirius, which bore the Egyptian name Sothis.
Yet, according to the calculations of Biot, the heliacal rising of Sothis at the solstice was noted as early as the year 3285 B.C., and it is certain that this star continued throughout subsequent centuries to keep this position of peculiar prestige.
Obviously with a calendar of 365 days only, at the end of four years, the calendar year, or vague year, as the Egyptians came to call it, had gained by one full day upon the actual solar year--that is to say, the heliacal rising of Sothis, the dog-star, would not occur on new year's day of the faulty calendar, but a day later.
And with each succeeding period of four years the day of heliacal rising, which marked the true beginning of the year--and which still, of course, coincided with the inundation--would have fallen another day behind the calendar.
Now Ilioneus, whom Virgil twice employs in embassies as the best speaker of the Trojans, attributes that tempest to Orion in his speech to Dido:— “Cum subito assurgens fluctu nimbosus Orion.” He must mean either the heliacal or achronical rising of that sign.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1957–2017).