The poets constellate in this town every summer. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A Jungian would say annoyingly that they "constellate" each other, that is, whenever one shows up it invokes the other. From Wordnik.com. [Obama has "developed a self-discipline so complete... that he has established dominion over not only what he does but also how he feels."] Reference
You constellate in motes, acidic yellowing papers, tiny script. From Wordnik.com. [Susannah M. Smith reads Walter Benjamin's Archive] Reference
These astrological aspects will constellate the Hero's Journey I've been speaking of. From Wordnik.com. [Taurus Full Moon 2008: Time to Examine our Values] Reference
That way you are poised to take advantage of the string of opportunity energies that constellate through April. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis F. Mitz: Ask Phyllis...Astrology and Beyond: A Scorpio's Search] Reference
We discuss a mathematical model of contexts which allows a context to split into several contexts, agglutinate from several contexts, or to constellate out of relatively acontextual processing. From Wordnik.com. [The Title of this Blog] Reference
Together these gestures constellate the habitus within which the various theories, doctrines, and practices of either field could materialize themselves, but against which the period writes with some resistant force. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
Upon retiring from the book business in 1998 after forty-eight years, he began work on the fluent autumnal poems that would eventually constellate into Breathing Room, several of which first appeared in The Atlantic. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Work] Reference
Each level was said to constellate a coherent span of human development, and the thirteen stages within that level could be seen as stages of evolvement somewhat similar to the stages of seasonal growth in the course of Nature's year. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: Science validates key Mayan Calendar premise] Reference
Such ideas constellate the image of a mind whose cognitive power the age at once esteemed and feared, especially at a time when the increasingly rapid dissemination of thought and thoughts in the public sphere was becoming an activity of some socio-political concern. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
And again, that price's becoming a running plot element in the BND Amazing title will keep the storytelling error in front of the reader irrespective of the quality of the BND arcs asthey invent their own businessand play out their own subthemes, metaphorical treatments and variants of the classic Lee/Ditko formulation, and constellate their own subuniverse of plot points. From Wordnik.com. [A dumb idea … or the dumbest idea? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Reduced to their essence, they offer mental switches, or conduits, that assist one to constellate ideas from stored experiences to fit the circumstances at hand. 95 This amplifies the value of artistic works like the studioli since, from Aristotle on, memory treatises concur that corporeal images are necessary for an idea or experience to be fixed securely in the mind and readily available for recollection. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
In the constellate symbol and sign of the free United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Henry Van Dyke] Reference
And D has a certain feeling because of the way the other chords constellate around it. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
You'll get into another relationship all right, but the same issues will constellate and very likely your new circumstances will be worse than the one you fled. From Wordnik.com. [ElsaElsa.com] Reference
Werthheimer concluded in the work that certain gestalts are enhanced by our innate tendency to constellate, or to see as "belonging together" elements that look alike (called "Similarity grouping"), are close together ( "proximity grouping") or have structural economy ( "good continuation"). From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The grounds of scorn and esteem, the topicks of praise and satire, are varied according to the several virtues or vices which the course of life has disposed men to admire or abhor; but he who is solicitous for his own improvement, must not be limited by local reputation, but select from every tribe of mortals their characteristical virtues, and constellate in himself the scattered graces which shine single in other men. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
The grounds of scorn and esteem, the topics of praise and satire, are varied according to the several virtues or vices which the course of our lives has disposed us to admire or abhor; but he who is solicitous for his own improvement, must not suffer his affairs to be limited by local reputation, but select from every tribe of mortals their characteristical virtues, and constellate in himself the scattered graces which shine single in other men. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant] Reference
Kemper watched cliques constellate and dissolve. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
They constellate such uneventful skies. From Wordnik.com. [POEMS BY MICHAEL LONGLEY, 1963-1966] Reference
Of constellate star-choirs. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
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