a. rare. [See CONSTELLATE and -ORY. Cf. med.L. constellātor astrologer (Du Cange).]

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  † 1.  Pertaining to constellations (sense 1), or to the casting of nativities, etc., from them. Obs.

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1652.  Gaule, Magastrom., 149. Hath not the constellatory fatation introduced so many starry gods into the world?

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1801.  F. Barrett, The Magus, Title-p., The Constellatory Practice, or, Talismanic Magic.

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  2.  Relating to, or of the nature of, a constellation or group of fixed stars.

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1823.  Lamb, Elia (1860), 232. [It] rises into a dignity equivalent to Cassiopeia’s chair. It is invested with constellatory importance.

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a. 1849.  Poe, E. B. Browning, Wks. (1864), III. 422. By no individual stars can we present the constellatory radiance of the book.

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1888.  Daily News, 26 June, 9/3. This artist’s day-dreams of constellatory spheres.

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