constellationally
/ˌkɑnstəˈleɪʃənəli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In the manner of a constellation (“(astrology) the configuration of planets at a given time (notably of birth), as used for determining a horoscope; (astronomy) a formation of stars perceived as a figure or pattern”).
Example Sentences
- "The Doctor is in ecstacies over it, takes it as a special personal favor, and declaims luminously and constellationally about writing one's name among the stars, like that frisky cow who, in jumping over the moon, upon a time, made the milky way."
- "[O]n each of the three examples referred to is shown a Great Serpent, which in the scheme of the heavens familiar to us, reappears constellationally in Ophis and Hydra."
- "The Scythian or Britannic Kimmeria, however, had an Eastern counterpart, known as Gomorrha, which, with Sodom, lay in that plain of Jordan (constellationally the River Eridanos), where wickedness was once supreme, and where the fire and brimstone reigned^([sic – meaning rained]) down by Yhovah answered the flaming air of our Erebus."
- "Certainly, the individual being takes on its meaning by entering organically into a constellationally woven whole, but this whole is concrete."
- "Saturn, the daughtily placed planet of the chart, appears to have an adverse say in the matter of longevity particularly since the Moon, a functional malefic for Gemini is also associated with him constellationally."
- "constellation. Adapted by [Theodor W.] Adorno from Walter Benjamin ('ideas are related to objects as constellations to stars': cit, Jarvis 1998: 175), and [Roy] Bhaskar in turn made it his own term of art [...]. Thus, epistemology (TD) is constellationally contained within (or connected with, or embraced or overreached by) ontology (ID), the present-future within the past, reasons within causes, structure within agency; power₂ within power₁, theory within practice, etc.; or ontology constellationally contains (embraces, overreaches) epistemology, etc.: [...]"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂eHs-
- Suffix: constellational
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkɑnstəˈleɪʃənəli/
- British English: /ˌkɒnstəˈleɪʃənəli/