starly meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

starly

adj

Etymology From star + -ly. Compare sunly, moonly.

Nonstandard Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a star or stars; astral.

[...] The exact setting of position of the Pyramids with regard to the points of the compass; The ceremony of "Stretching Cord"; Constellation of the Great Bear; History of the starly guardians of the poles; [...]1962, Jozef Marie Antoon Janssen, International Association of Egyptologists, Bibliographie égyptologique annuelle:
If g separates starly points from closed sets, g is a COC-map giving rise to a Nagata function as can be seen by the argument above.1984, Taehan Suhakhoe, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society:

adv

Etymology From star + -ly. Compare sunly, moonly.

Nonstandard In a starly manner.

For the sense-datum theory, we have a sense-datum produced by it as it was; on the adverbial view, we are sensing "starly" in the way we would have if we had received the relevant visual stimuli at the time the star produced them.2004, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Woleński, Handbook of epistemology:
[...] and he could see the stars in the well again and there came again the rising feeling of falling well-ward into the watery sky, falling freely, well and sky, uply downly skyly, starly brightly well-ly wishing her mother No finish go [...]2010, Ralph Ellison, John Callahan, Adam Bradley, Three Days Before the Shooting:

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