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† 1. Astrol. Fashioned under a particular ‘constellation,’ or conjunction of planets, or bearing the mark of one. [So F. constellé (in Molière).]
Constellated images: ‘images astronomically framed under certaine constellations to preserve from severall inconveniences: as under the signe of the Sun the figure of a Lion made in gold, against … dropsie, plague, fevers, etc.’ (Bp. Hall, Cases Consc. (1649), III. ii. 234).
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 176. Why should not the constellated vertue last so long as the substantiall matter lasts…? Ibid., 346. Ualens, understanding, by a constellated figure, that one should succeed him, [etc.].
1726. Leoni, trans. Alberti’s Archit., II. 7 a. These things may be done by an Art, now lost, by means of little constellated images.
1837. Sir F. Palgrave, Merch. & Friar (1844), 213. Oxford folks … suppose that the constellated image will teach me to surround England with a wall of brass.
2. Formed into, or set in, a constellation; clustered together as stars in a constellation.
1638–48. G. Daniel, Eclog., I. 106. That verse which Tiber claimes, more glorious Then Po, constellated Eridanus.
1795–8. T. Maurice, Hindostan (1820), I. I. vi. 204. The constellated sisters [Hyades].
1796. Coleridge, Relig. Musings, I. 89. The constellated company of worlds Danced jubilant.
c. 1820. Shelley, Question, ii. Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth, The constellated flower that never sets.
1857. Ruskin, Pol. Econ. Art., ii. (1868), 156. These noble groups of constellated schools which I foresee arising in our England.
3. Studded as with stars or constellations.
1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (1774), 57. A … cerulean darkness had began to obumbrate the superficies of the constellated regions.
1819. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., IV. 532. Beyond Heaven’s constellated wilderness.
1872. G. Macdonald, Wilf. Cumb., III. xxi. 267. He is yet a star in the constellated crown of England.
