[f. med.L. stellificāre STELLIFY v.: see -ATION.] The action of stellifying or placing among the stars.
1650. J. Reynolds, Flower Fidelity, 1–2. The … no lesse rejoycing of his (more than) joyful Subjects; who in stellification of their young Prince his Nativity, so sumptuously solemnized his Birth with Heroical triumphs, that [etc.].
1660. A. Brett, Threnodia, 19. Stellification, fancy is, And so is Metempsychosis.
1906. A. Clark, in Essex Rev., XV. 90. The conclusion is the stellification of Mansfield’s wig: Sudden it mounted to the starry skies.
1907. Expositor, April, 378. The nearest approach to stellification that the somewhat prosaic Northern mythology allows.
