constellationally

English

WOTD – 24 June 2020

Etymology

From constellational +‎ -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnstəˈleɪʃənəli/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnstəˈleɪʃənəli/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃənəli
• Hyphenation: con‧stel‧lat‧ion‧al‧ly

Adverb

constellationally (not comparable)

1. In the manner of a constellation (“(astrology) the configuration of planets at a given time (notably of birth), as used for determining a horoscope; (astronomy) a formation of stars perceived as a figure or pattern”).
   • 1873, [Albert Gallatin Riddle], “The Blue Chamber”, in Bart Ridgeley; a Story of Northern Ohio, Boston, Mass.: Nichols and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 22–23:

     The Doctor is in ecstacies over it, takes it as a special personal favor, and declaims luminously and constellationally about writing one's name among the stars, like that frisky cow who, in jumping over the moon, upon a time, made the milky way.

   • 1892 January 9, Robert Brown, Jun., “The Milky Way in Euphratean Stellar Mythology”, in [James Sutherland Cotton], editor, The Academy. […], volume XLI, number 1027 (New Series), London: Alexander and Shepheard, […], →OCLC, page 43, column 2:

     [O]n each of the three examples referred to is shown a Great Serpent, which in the scheme of the heavens familiar to us, reappears constellationally in Ophis and Hydra.

   • 1913, Arthur William Whatmore, “Funeral Rites—Death and Burial of Elpenor—State of the Dead”, in Insulæ Britannicæ: The British Isles, Their Geography, History and Antiquities down to the Close of the Roman Period, London: E[lliot] Stock, →OCLC; republished Port Washington, N.Y., London: Kennikat Press, 1971, →ISBN, part I (Insulæ Britannicæ), page 43:

     The Scythian or Britannic Kimmeria, however, had an Eastern counterpart, known as Gomorrha, which, with Sodom, lay in that plain of Jordan (constellationally the River Eridanos), where wickedness was once supreme, and where the fire and brimstone reigned^{[sic – meaning rained]} down by Yhovah answered the flaming air of our Erebus.

   • 1989, Alfonso López Quintás, editor, The Knowledge of Values: A Methodological Introduction (Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Life, Series I (Culture and Values); 2), Lanham, Md.: University Press of America; [Washington, D.C.]: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, →ISBN, page 35:

     Certainly, the individual being takes on its meaning by entering organically into a constellationally woven whole, but this whole is concrete.

   • 1998, The Astrological Magazine, volume 87, Bangalore, Karnataka: Raman Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 643, column 1:

     Saturn, the daughtily placed planet of the chart, appears to have an adverse say in the matter of longevity particularly since the Moon, a functional malefic for Gemini is also associated with him constellationally.

   • 2007, Mervyn Hartwig, “constellation”, in Dictionary of Critical Realism, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 78–79:

     constellation. Adapted by [Theodor W.] Adorno from Walter Benjamin ('ideas are related to objects as constellations to stars': cit, Jarvis 1998: 175), and [Roy] Bhaskar in turn made it his own term of art [...]. Thus, epistemology (TD) is constellationally contained within (or connected with, or embraced or overreached by) ontology (ID), the present-future within the past, reasons within causes, structure within agency; power₂ within power₁, theory within practice, etc.; or ontology constellationally contains (embraces, overreaches) epistemology, etc.: [...]

Related terms

• constellation
• constellational

Translations

in the manner of a constellation