[Noun of action f. L. stellāre to diversify with stars, to place among the stars, etc., f. stella star: see -ATION.]
† 1. Blighting or blasting of trees (attributed to starry influence): = SIDERATION 1. Obs.–0
1623. [see SIDERATION 1].
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Stellation, a blasting.
† 2. ? = CONSTELLATION. Obs. rare–1.
a. 1629. T. Adams, Serm., Wks. 158. Some haue thought that these Magi, hauing so profound skill in Astrologie, might by calculation of times, composition of Starres, and Stellations of the Heauens, foreknow the birth of the Messias.
† 3. Placing among the stars; stellification. Obs.
1635. Heywood, Hierarchy, III. 138. The cause of it’s [sc. the Scorpion’s] stellation to enquire,… Comes next in course.
† 4. (See quot. 1661.) Obs.–0
1661. Blount, Glossogr. (ed. 2), Stellation, a making starlike, or adorning with Stars.
1721. Bailey, Stellation, an Adorning with Stars.
† 5. (See quot.) Obs.–0
1755. Johnson, Stellation, emission of light as from a star.
6. Each of the ‘stars’ composing a stellate tissue.
1859. J. Tomes, Dental Surg., 44. Below the epithelium comes a thick layer of stellate areolar tissue…. Nuclei are present in the centres of the stellations.
7. The making or being stellate.
1859. Cayley, Math. Papers (1891), IV. 83. On account of the stellation é = 2.
