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Of or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres

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, year=1824 , editor=James Elmes, , title=A general and bibliographical dictionary of the fine arts , chapter=Cist , passage=The bearers of the mystic cists in the Ceresian and Eleusinian processions were called Cistophori and Canephorae. }}

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, year=1866 , page=17 , author=John Jones Thomas , title=Britannia antiquissima , chapter=The Cimbro-Celtic Families , passage=I shall want the Olympic twigs, the Pindaric olives, and the germinal sprigs of the Ceres -ian Ciros, &c, in the course of my remarks on druidical ceremonies. [italics in original] }}

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, year=1902 , author= , title=Is Natural Selection Evolving a Sober Race? , journal=The Westminster Review , page=504 , volume=158 , passage=Many years ago, a Mr. Torbit brought forward a Ceresian scheme for producing a disease-proof potato. }}

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, year=1920 , author=Charles Isaacson , title=The Musical Digest , journal=Theatre Magazine , page=232 , volume=31 , passage=Some day I hope to hear the Corybantian dances and perhaps the Ceresian music of Eleusia. }}

(rare) Of or relating to the dwarf planet / asteroid Ceres

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Of or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres

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, year=1823 , author=William Booth , title=Flowers of Roman poesy , chapter=Nasidien , page=42 , passage=Sprinkled with salt and Cererean grain}}

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, year=1878 , author=William Thomas Thornton , title=Word for word from Horace , chapter=Epode 16 , page=314 , passage=An untilled soil its yearly growth of grain Cererian yields}}

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, year=1986 , author=Sarah Iles Johnston , journal=The Journal of Indo-European studies , page=44 , volume=14 , passage=As a divinity of the earth, Mefitis shows in fact two aspects: cererian , she is goddess of plowing [...], and chthonian}}

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, year=2004 , author=Sarah Iles Johnston , title=Religions of the ancient world , page=233 , passage=We find, for example, at Agnone a "Cererian " Hercules and at Rossano a "Mefitanian" Mamers (= Mars); presumably these two major Italic divinities, Hercules and Mamers, were the "guests" of Ceres and Mefitis}}

Of or relating to the dwarf planet–asteroid Ceres

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, year=2006 , date=August , author=Tom Buckner , title=Letters , journal=Discover Magazine , passage=Most of the ship's mass would be Cererian' water; Earth would supply the crew, the ship's skin, and the engines. Ceres' surface gravity is about ¹/₃₆ Earth's gravity, and the asteroid is just close enough to the sun for it to power the machinery. ' Cererian water may unlock the solar system.}}

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, year=2012 , author=A.S. Rivkin et al. , editors=Christopher Russell & Carol Raymond, , title=The Dawn Mission to Minor Planets 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres , chapter=The Surface Composition of Ceres , page=109 , passage=Brucite itself has not been observed in meteorites in the amounts implied by Ceres' spectrum, which seems to minimize the likelihood that any Cererean material has been found by meteorite hunters.}}

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, date=2012-09-21 , author= , title=Dawn Spacecraft Finds Traces of Water on Vesta , site=Sci-Tech Daily , passage=Vesta is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth and its maximum distance from the Sun is slightly farther than the minimum distance of Ceres from the Sun (2.56AU). However its orbit lies entirely within the Cererian orbit.}}