Astral

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. --Dryden.
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     2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an aster; as, astral rays;
        astral sphere.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  astral
       adj : being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars;
             "an astral body"; "stellar light" [syn: {stellar}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  162 Moby Thesaurus words for "astral":
     Buddhic body, Cynthian, Masan, airy, anagalactic, apparition,
     appearance, asomatous, asteroidal, astral body, astral spirit,
     astrologic, astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astrophysical,
     banshee, bliss body, bodiless, causal body, celestial,
     circumplanetary, cislunar, control, daydreaming, daydreamy,
     decarnate, decarnated, departed spirit, design body, discarnate,
     disembodied, disembodied spirit, duppy, dybbuk, ectoplasmic,
     eidolon, empyreal, empyrean, equinoctial, ethereal, etheric,
     etheric body, extragalactic, extramundane, form, galactic, ghost,
     ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, grateful dead, guide, hant,
     haunt, heavenly, heliacal, highest, highest-ranking, idolum,
     immaterial, immateriality, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate,
     incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, insubstantial,
     intangible, intercosmic, interplanetary, intersidereal,
     interstellar, kamarupa, kamic body, larva, lemures, linga sharira,
     lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate, manes, materialization,
     meteoric, meteoritic, mind body, nebular, nebulose, nebulous,
     nonmaterial, nonphysical, occult, oni, otherworldly, phantasm,
     phantasma, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike,
     planetal, planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, poltergeist,
     presence, psychic, revenant, semilunar, shade, shadow, shadowy,
     shape, shrouded spirit, sidereal, solar, soul body, specter,
     specterlike, spectral, spectral ghost, sphery, spirit, spiritual,
     spiritual body, spook, sprite, star-spangled, star-studded, starry,
     stellar, stellary, subtle body, supernatural, terrestrial,
     theophany, top-drawer, transmundane, unearthly, unembodied,
     unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unsubstantial, unsubstantiality,
     unworldly, uranic, vision, visionary, vital body, walking dead man,
     wandering soul, wraith, wraithlike, wraithy, zodiacal, zombie
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ASTRAL
       Alliance fuer Strategic Token Ring Advancement and Leadership
       (manufacturer)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Astral
       
           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].
       
          (2000-01-27)