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- proper noun An alternative name of the
star AlphaCanis Majoris (α CMa),Sirius .
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Examples
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Anita by describing the strong chastisements of Honuphrius and the depravities (turpissimas!) of Canicula, the deceased wife of Mauritius, with Sulla, the simoniac, who is abnegand and repents.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Actually, her first book of poems was Canicula di Anna, published in 1984 in the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Book Series.
The First Book Weiss, Renee 2006
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Canicula, than when he is in Cancer, in which sign, however, he is nearer to the perpendicular.
The New Organon 2005
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Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, ascendant during the "dog days" of July and August, "at which time the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius, or Canicula, reigneth with immoderate heate, causing pestilence, drougth, and many diseases"
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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The meaning whereof is, that in Iuly the sun is in Leo At which tyme the Dogge starre, which is called Syrius or Canicula reigneth, with immoderate heate causing Pestilence, drought, and many diseases.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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Sextiles poflridie mane Canicula ex - oriente, monet,. in Piinio, qui Augufl: eum annum feqaitur» legendttm eife: a. d.
Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs].. 1794
hernesheir commented on the word Canicula
The star know widely as Sirius.
March 15, 2011