planetical

Example Sentences

• "Of this figure Plato made choice to illustrate the motion of the soul, both the world and man: while he delivereth that God divided the whole conjunction length-wise, according to the figure of a Greek X, and then turning it about reflected it into a circle; by the circle implying the uniform motion of the first orb, and by the right lines, the planetical and various motions within it"
• "... that white specks p'sage our felicity, blude ones misfortunes; that those in ye nail of ye thumb have significations of honour, those in ye forefinger of riches, and so respectively in other fingers (according to the planetical relations from whence they receive their names), as Tricassus hath taken up and Picciolus well rejecteth."
• "They are stated to be the circles of unequal or planetical hours, or one-twelfth part of the time between sunset and sunrise, the division of the night in common use in early times."
• "Thus when a person says, "I fear a dog," Morton writes, a person may mean that "he is afraid of the household dog ... or to be drowned and so devoured of the sea dog, or to go mad by the poisonous influences of the planetical dog."
• "He has also a characteristic rebuke of "planetical" preachers, who were not to be restrained to one parish, but must spread their talents over a whole province or principality."