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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

starly en · ADJ

Etymology

From star + -ly. Compare sunly, moonly.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a star or stars; astral.
    • [...] The exact setting of position of the Pyramids with regard to the points of the compass; The ceremony of "Stretching Cord"; Constellation of the Great Bear; History of the starly guardians of the poles; [...] 1962, Jozef Marie Antoon Janssen, International Association of Egyptologists, Bibliographie égyptologique annuelle:
    • If g separates starly points from closed sets, g is a COC-map giving rise to a Nagata function as can be seen by the argument above. 1984, Taehan Suhakhoe, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society:

Forms

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more starly Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most starly Degree=Sup lexicographic

Coordinates

sunly · earthly · moonly

starly en · ADV

Etymology

From star + -ly. Compare sunly, moonly.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard) In a starly manner.
    • For the sense-datum theory, we have a sense-datum produced by it as it was; on the adverbial view, we are sensing "starly" in the way we would have if we had received the relevant visual stimuli at the time the star produced them. 2004, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Woleński, Handbook of epistemology:
    • [...] and he could see the stars in the well again and there came again the rising feeling of falling well-ward into the watery sky, falling freely, well and sky, uply downly skyly, starly brightly well-ly wishing her mother No finish go [...] 2010, Ralph Ellison, John Callahan, Adam Bradley, Three Days Before the Shooting:

Forms

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more starly Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most starly Degree=Sup lexicographic

Relateds

starrily