[每日] sidereal (a) 星的
Word of the Day (Tuesday November 11, 2008)
sidereal \sy-DEER-ee-uhl\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/2c57A
measured or determined by the daily motion of the stars; of or
having to do with the stars or constellations
And everything flying away from everything else for fifteen or
so billion years, affinities are established, sidereal liaisons,
and the stars slowly drift around one another into rotating star
groups or galaxies, and in great monumental motions the galaxies
even more slowly convene in clusters, which clusters in turn
distribute themselves in linear fashion, a great chain or string
of superclusters billions of light-years on end.
-- E. L. Doctorow, City of God
Her description of the calendars that prefaced Books of Hours
applies equally to her own book: they make up "a cycle of
multiple resonances, spiritual and secular, terrestrial and
sidereal, liturgical and agricultural, pagan and Christian,
breathtaking in its richness and antiquity and in the
geographical spread of its references, but also grounded in the
here and now, the everyday".
-- Peter Parker, A remarkable English garden," review of The
Morville Hours, by Katherine Swift,, Daily Telegraph, May 2,
2004
by 1634, "of or pertaining to the stars," earlier sideral (1594),
from French sidereal (16th century), from Latin sidereus "starry,
astral," from sidus "star, constellation," probably from Proto
Indo-European base *sweid- "to shine"
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