Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To form or cause to form a group or cluster.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To join luster; shine with united radiance or one general light.
- To unite (several shining bodies) in one illumination.
- To form into or furnish with constellations or stars.
- To place in a constellation or mate with stars.
- To group in or as if in a constellation: as, the constellated graces of faith, hope, and charity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.
- transitive verb rare To unite in one luster or radiance, as stars.
- transitive verb To set or adorn with stars or constellations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
combine as acluster - verb transitive To
fit ,adorn (as if) withconstellations - verb intransitive To (form a)
cluster .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb form a constellation or cluster
- verb scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
- verb come together as in a cluster or flock
Etymologies
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Examples
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A Jungian would say annoyingly that they "constellate" each other, that is, whenever one shows up it invokes the other.
Obama has "developed a self-discipline so complete... that he has established dominion over not only what he does but also how he feels." Ann Althouse 2008
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We can account for optimal states for acting, interior and exterior domains of both the leaders and those we lead, lines of development and personality types that constellate our organizations, to name a few key areas.
Willow Dea: 7 Habits for Effective Teaching Willow Dea 2011
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Together these gestures constellate the habitus within which the various theories, doctrines, and practices of either field could materialize themselves, but against which the period writes with some resistant force.
Introduction 2008
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Reduced to their essence, they offer mental switches, or conduits, that assist one to constellate ideas from stored experiences to fit the circumstances at hand. 95 This amplifies the value of artistic works like the studioli since, from Aristotle on, memory treatises concur that corporeal images are necessary for an idea or experience to be fixed securely in the mind and readily available for recollection.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Such ideas constellate the image of a mind whose cognitive power the age at once esteemed and feared, especially at a time when the increasingly rapid dissemination of thought and thoughts in the public sphere was becoming an activity of some socio-political concern.
Introduction 2008
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That way you are poised to take advantage of the string of opportunity energies that constellate through April.
Phyllis F. Mitz: Ask Phyllis...Astrology and Beyond: A Scorpio's Search 2009
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You constellate in motes, acidic yellowing papers, tiny script.
Susannah M. Smith reads Walter Benjamin's Archive Lemon Hound 2009
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These astrological aspects will constellate the Hero's Journey I've been speaking of.
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Each level was said to constellate a coherent span of human development, and the thirteen stages within that level could be seen as stages of evolvement somewhat similar to the stages of seasonal growth in the course of Nature's year.
Breaking News: Science validates key Mayan Calendar premise 2007
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Upon retiring from the book business in 1998 after forty-eight years, he began work on the fluent autumnal poems that would eventually constellate into Breathing Room, several of which first appeared in The Atlantic.
A Life's Work 2005
vanishedone commented on the word constellate
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: 'I go to the river to gaze at the river, like everyone else. I'm no different. And behind all this, O sky my sky, I secretly constellate and have my infinity.'
July 11, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word constellate
"1. To join luster; shine with united radiance or one general light.
2. To unite (several shining bodies) in one illumination.
3. To form into or furnish with constellations or stars.
4. To place in a constellation or mate with stars.
5. To group in or as if in a constellation: as, the constellated graces of faith, hope, and charity."
--Century Dictionary
September 24, 2010