Stellify vs Constellation - What's the difference?
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(mythology) To transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such
:''In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal.
* 1983 , Douglas Brooks-Davies, The Mercurian Monarch: magical politics from Spenser to Pope , page 31
(astronomy) To turn into a star.
* 1989', ''Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact'', ' 109 : 75
An arbitrary formation of stars perceived as a figure or pattern.
An image associated with a group of stars.
(astronomy) Any of the 88 officially recognized regions of the sky, including all stars and celestial bodies in the region.
(astrology) The configuration of planets at a given time (notably of birth), as used for determining a horoscope.
(figuratively) A wide, seemingly unlimited assortment.
* A constellation of possibilities.
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* Your computer's software constellation helps you do your work faster.
Constellation is a related term of stellify.
As a verb stellify
is to transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such.As a noun constellation is
an arbitrary formation of stars perceived as a figure or pattern.stellify
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Verb
- By the 'hissing snake' Spenser presumably means the scorpion sent by Diana that killed Orion. Like Orion it, too, was stellified . But since, as Scorpio, it rises in the east as Orion's sign sets in the west, the two were regarded as being kept forever apart, Orion perpetually avoiding in the heavens his vanquisher on earth.
- An alternative way to stellify the planet may be to not collapse Jupiter, but instead to introduce a collapsed object into its core .
constellation
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
