Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very white glittering star of the second magnitude, in the left shoulder of Orion. It is
γ Orionis. - noun In ornithology, a genus of humming-birds.
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Examples
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I always saw bellatrix as the morticia adams type.
'Harry Potter': Helena Bonham Carter joins the castions | EW.com 2006
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I absoulutly LOVE how they had Dobby saying "You shall not harm Harry Potter" and then bellatrix throws the knife.
MuggleNet 2010
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Quidditch again, Katie Bell, the psicho twisted bellatrix, i think here comes the best movie yet ....
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OH but wait they made up for it by the burrow getting randomly attacked by fenrir greyback and bellatrix lestrange which makes no sense at all … Idk just big plot holes with the memories and the horocruxes playing a minor role in this film when it should have been the focal point. but oh well i guess i’ll just have to pray for the next 2 too be better ….
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is worst of the series » Scene-Stealers 2009
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and the “severus please….” in THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE probabbly meant not save dumbledore but i think what he meant here was to save himself and thus honour the unbreakable vow so that he is now free and is able to show his ‘loyalty’ to the dark side and gain their trust and banish the last dredges of the suspicion esp in the eyes of people like bellatrix!
Just Finished Reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005
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bellatrix illi diua ferebat opem. cumque minor Ioue sit, tumidis qui regnat in undis,
A Friend in Need Ovid 1912
chained_bear commented on the word bellatrix
"... in astronomy, a ruddy glittering star, of the second magnitude, in the left shoulder of Orion. It takes its name from the Latin bellum, as being anciently supposed to have great influence in kindling wars and forming warriors...."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 37–38
October 11, 2008