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Heliacal

adjective
1.
Pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun.  Synonym: heliac.  "The heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)"






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