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Definition of stellified in English English dictionary
- Simple past tense and past participle of stellify
- Placed in the heavens by the gods in the form of a celestial body
Orion is a stellified hunter.
- stellify
- To turn into a star
An alternative way to stellify the planet may be to not collapse Jupiter, but instead to introduce a collapsed object into its core.
- stellify
- To transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such
By the 'hissing snake' Spenser presumably means the scorpion sent by Diana that killed Orion. Like Orion it, too, was stellified. But since, as Scorpio, it rises in the east as Orion's sign sets in the west, the two were regarded as being kept forever apart, Orion perpetually avoiding in the heavens his vanquisher on earth.
- stellify
- To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven