Word Meanings - PERIASTRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Among or around the stars. "Comets in periastral passage." R. A. Proctor.

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• PROCTOR
  One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. Specifically: A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar. Nares. An officer employed in admiralty
• PROCTORAGE
  Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. "The fogging proctorage of money." Milton.
• PROCTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.
• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• PASSAGE
  1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of
• PROCTORICAL
  Proctorial.
• PERIASTRAL
  Among or around the stars. "Comets in periastral passage." R. A. Proctor.
• AMONG; AMONGST
  among, AS. onmang, ongemang, gemang, in a crowd or mixture. For the 1. Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton. 2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part
• PASSAGER
  A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. Ld. Berners.
• STARSHOOT
  See NOSTOC
• PROCTORSHIP
  The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. Clarendon.
• STARSHINE
  The light of the stars. The starshine lights upon our heads. R. L. Stevenson.
• STARSTONE
  Asteriated sapphire.
• PROPROCTOR
  A assistant proctor. Hook.
• BY-PASSAGE
  A passage different from the usual one; a byway.
• RUN-AROUND
  A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone.
• REPASSAGE
  The act of repassing; passage back. Hakluyt.