astral
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Astral \As"tral\, a. [L. astralis, fr. astrum star, Gr. ?: cf.
F. astral. See {Star}.]
1. Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars;
starry; starlike.
[1913 Webster]
Shines only with an astral luster. --I. Taylor.
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Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. --Dryden.
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2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an aster; as, astral rays;
astral sphere.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. (Theosophy) Consisting of, belonging to, or designating, a
kind of supersensible substance alleged to be next above
the tangible world in refinement; as, astral spirits;
astral bodies of persons; astral current; the astral
plane.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
{Astral lamp}, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow
is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped
reservoir in which the oil is contained.
{Astral spirits}, spirits formerly supposed to live in the
heavenly bodies or the a["e]rial regions, and represented
in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead,
or spirits originating in fire.
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from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Astral
<language> A programming language based on {Pascal}, never
implemented.
["ASTRAL: A Structured and Unified Approach to Database Design
and Manipulation", T. Amble et al, in Proc of the Database
Architecture Conf, Venice, June 1979].
(2000-01-27)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "astral":
Buddhic body, Cynthian, Masan, airy, anagalactic, apparition,
appearance, asomatous, asteroidal, astral body, astral spirit,
astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical,
banshee, bliss body, bodiless, causal body, celestial,
circumplanetary, cislunar, control, daydreaming, daydreamy,
decarnate, decarnated, departed spirit, design body, discarnate,
disembodied, disembodied spirit, duppy, dybbuk, ectoplasmic,
eidolon, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, ethereal, etheric,
etheric body, extragalactic, extramundane, form, galactic, ghost,
ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, grateful dead, guide, hant,
haunt, heavenly, heliacal, highest, highest-ranking, idolum,
immaterial, immateriality, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate,
incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, insubstantial,
intangible, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal,
interstellar, kamarupa, kamic body, larva, lemures, linga sharira,
lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, manes, materialization,
meteoric, meteoritic, mind body, nebular, nebulose, nebulous,
nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, oni, otherworldly, phantasm,
phantasma, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike,
planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, poltergeist,
presence, psychic, revenant, semilunar, shade, shadow, shadowy,
shape, shrouded spirit, sidereal, solar, soul body, specter,
specterlike, spectral, spectral ghost, sphery, spirit, spiritual,
spiritual body, spook, sprite, star-spangled, star-studded, starry,
stellar, stellary, subtle body, supernatural, terrestrial,
theophany, top-drawer, transmundane, unearthly, unembodied,
unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality,
unworldly, uranic, vision, visionary, vital body, walking dead man,
wandering soul, wraith, wraithlike, wraithy, zodiacal, zombie
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