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adjective

Astral adj.

Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike. "Shines only with an astral luster." "Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer."

(Biol.) Of or pertaining to an aster; as, astral rays; astral sphere.

(Theosophy) Consisting of, belonging to, or designating, a kind of supersensible substance alleged to be next above the tangible world in refinement; as, astral spirits; astral bodies of persons; astral current; the astral plane.

Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained.

Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aerial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... have been. By the way, Nellie, you must have sent an astral warning that you were coming along. We were just ...

— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

... an extra holiday hand. Dozens of customers clamoured for her at once. Each female creature seemed to have as many hands as Briareus, all reaching for things they wanted, or gesticulating and brandishing money, or snatching for change. If each distracted girl had had half a dozen highly trained astral bodies with which to serve these terrible ladies, it would not have been enough. More ladies ...

— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson

... I do mean," she said. "It's a sort of power that grows—and oh, Bill, I'd do anything in the world to get rid of it! But this woman whom I saw standing by Lionel Varick in the porch was not a spirit. She was an astral body; that is, she was alive somewhere else: it was her thoughts—her vengeful, malicious thoughts—which ...

— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes

... yonge lady," he said, meekly, falling back to the centre-table on which was burning my shaded astral lamp—for I had left it as he approached, instinctively to seek the protection of an interposing chair, on the back of which I ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... brilliant brunette, but here was another brunette who eclipsed her in her own splendid style of beauty as an astral lamp outshines a candle. Cleopatra, Thais, Aspasia, or any other world-renowned siren who had governed kingdoms through kings' passions, might have been just such a woman ...

— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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