a. Of Cassiopeia, one of the northern constellations. (In this constellation a brilliant new star appeared in 1572, which subsequently disappeared again.)

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c. 1630.  Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 55. And if perhaps no Cassiopeian spark (Which in the north did thy first rising mark) Shine o’re thy hearse.

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