astral

Adjective

Synonyms: stellar

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars“an astral body”“stellar light”Synonyms: stellar

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.[1913 Webster]

Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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].

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