Astraean

As`trae´an


a.1.(Zool.) Pertaining to the genus Astræa or the family Astræidæ.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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However, the identification of Spenser's Senecan sources raises further problems: not only are the passages conjoined on the basis of an Astraean eschatology that is nowhere made explicit, but Spenser has simultaneously redescribed the falling of the stars as an almost comic battle between the constellations, and reinterpreted it in astronomical terms as the precession of the equinoxes.
Spenser, Seneca, and the Sibyl: Book V of The Faeirie Queene
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