Vocabulary Word
Word: astronomical
Definition: enormously large or extensive
Definition: enormously large or extensive
Sentences Containing 'astronomical'
Most of them, and especially those who deal in the astronomical part, have great faith in judicial astrology, although they are ashamed to own it publicly.
The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.
And that the Egyptians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among archaeologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stair-like formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight.
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