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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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"Astral" Quotes from Famous Books

... unsatisfied, and said: "So you wouldn't give me your word that you DON'T hold with astral bodies and all the ...

— Howards End • E. M. Forster

... even the Theosophical Society, with all its absurdities of levitation and the astral body, has been compelled to bear some witness to Jesus Christ. He is "the light that lighteth every man," and he has given even to this system some elements of truth. We do not hesitate to recognize the truth that Buddha and Confucius, taught, and to regard it as a ray of Christ's light shed ...

— A Tour of the Missions - Observations and Conclusions • Augustus Hopkins Strong

... in one way," she said, half aloud, and crossing the room she turned down the astral lamp which was ...

— Dora Deane • Mary J. Holmes

... marriage. It conjoined with many of the social activities for good of one who might have been her twin sister—Suzanne Feenix—only that Suzanne was twenty years older and perhaps an inch or two shorter. Dear woman! My remembrance flashes a kiss to your astral cheek—which in reality I should never have dared to salute, so great was my awe of Colonel Armstrong's muscles—as, at any reasonable time before or after the birth of your last child in June, 1910, you stand in the hall ...

— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston

... perfected coal-oil stove does not give out disagreeable odors when the petroleum used is refined, like that known in the market as Pratt's Astral Oil. This brand of oil does not contain naphtha, the existence of which in the partially refined oils is the cause of so many dangerous explosions ...

— Four Months in a Sneak-Box • Nathaniel H. Bishop

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