Sid"er*al (?), a. [L. sideralis. See Sidereal.] 1. Relating to the
stars.
2. (Astrol.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the
stars; baleful. "Sideral blast." Milton.
Sid"er*a`ted (?), a. [L. sideratus, p. p. of siderari to be blasted by
a constellation, fr. sidus, sideris, a constellation.] Planet-struck;
blasted. [Obs.]
Sid`er*a"tion, n. [L. sideratio.] The state of being siderated, or
planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently
causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis. [Obs.] Ray.
Si*de"re*al (?), a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation,
a star. Cf. Sideral, Consider, Desire.] 1. Relating to the stars;
starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.
2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated,
marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect
to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
Sidereal clock, day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc. -- Sideral
time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as
the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox,
reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent
sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not
of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.
Si*de"re*al*ize (?), v. t. To elevate to the stars, or to the region of
the stars; to etherealize.
German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in
Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators.
W. Pater.