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241 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ERRATIC.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Moving; not fixed or stationary; applied to the planets, as distinguished from the fixed stars.
242 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXALTATION.7 (Noah Webster)
4. In astrology, the dignity of a planet in which its powers are increased.
243 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FASCIA.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In astronomy, the belt of a planet.
244 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FIXED.4 (Noah Webster)
Fixed stars, are such stars as always retain the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, and are thus distinguished from planets and comets, which are revolving bodies.
245 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GEOCENTRIC.1 (Noah Webster)
GEOCENTRIC, a. [Gr. earth, and center.] Having the earth for its center, or the same center with the earth. The word is applied to a planet or its orbit.
246 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GRAVITATE.2 (Noah Webster)
… the planets are supposed to gravitate towards the sun, or center of the solar system.
247 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HELIOCENTRIC.2 (Noah Webster)
The heliocentric place of a planet, is the place of the ecliptic in which the planet would appear to a spectator at the center of the sun.
248 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HELIOCENTRIC.3 (Noah Webster)
The heliocentric latitude of a planet, is the inclination of a line drawn between the center of the sun and the center of a planet to the plane of the ecliptic.
249 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HERSCHEL.1 (Noah Webster)
HERSCHEL, n. her’shel. A planet discovered by Dr. Herschel, in 1781.
250 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOROSCOPY.1 (Noah Webster)
HOROSCOPY, n. The art or practice of predicting future events by the disposition of the stars and planets.
251 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOUSE.7 (Noah Webster)
5. In astrology, the station of a planet in the heavens, or the twelfth part of the heavens.
252 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ILL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Producing evil or misfortune; as an ill star or planet.
253 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMMERSION.5 (Noah Webster)
The time when a star or planet is so near the sun as to be invisible; also, the moment when the moon begins to be darkened, and to enter the shadow of the earth.
254 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INFLUENCE.5 (Noah Webster)
2. The power which celestial bodies are supposed to exert on terrestrial; as the influence of the planets on the birth and fortunes of men; an exploded doctrine of astrology.
255 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JOVE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The planet jupiter.
256 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JOVIAL.1 (Noah Webster)
JOVIAL, a. [from Jove, supra.] Under the influence of Jupiter, the planet.
257 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JOVIAL.2 (Noah Webster)
--The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets.
258 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUPITER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. One of the superior planets, remarkable for its brightness. Its diameter is about eighty-nine thousand miles; its distance from the sun, four hundred and ninety millions of miles, and its revolution round the sun a little less than twelve years.
259 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. KNOW.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To distinguish; as, to know one man from another. We know a fixed star from a planet by its twinkling.
260 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIKE.6 (Noah Webster)
Why might not other planets have been created for like uses with the earth, each for its own inhabitants?