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astral
 
SYLLABICATION:as·tral
PRONUNCIATION:  strl
ADJECTIVE:1. Of, relating to, emanating from, or resembling the stars. 2. Biology Of, relating to, or shaped like the mitotic aster; star-shaped. 3. Of or relating to a supersensible body believed by theosophists to coexist with and survive the death of the human physical body: an astral body; astral projection.
ETYMOLOGY:Late Latin astrlis, from Latin astrum, star, from Greek astron. See ster-3 in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:astral·lyADVERB
 
 
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