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stellar, a.|ˈstɛlə(r)|
[ad. late L. stellāris, f. L. stella star: see -ar. Cf. F. stellaire, It. stellare, Sp. estrellar.]
1. Pertaining to the stars or a star; of the nature of a star.
1656Blount Glossogr., Stellar..starry, pertaining to a star. Bac. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 671 These soft fires..shed down Thir stellar vertue on all kinds that grow On Earth. 1669Flamsteed in Phil. Trans. IV. 1109 At the middle of this Stellar Eclipse the Moons Center is but 20 sec. more to the South than the Star. c1786Burns To Miss Cruickshank 7 Never baleful stellar lights, Taint thee with untimely blights! 1833Sir J. Herschel Treat. Astron. (1839) 404 They present the appearance of a dull and blotted star, or of a star with a slight burr round it, in which case they are called stellar nebulæ. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1841) 165 Not a leaf rotting on the highway but is indissoluble portion of solar and stellar systems. 1858Sears Athan. 7 Localities somewhere among the planetary and stellar spaces. 1868Roscoe Elem. Chem. 10 Within the last few years the foundations of a solar and stellar chemistry have, however, been laid. 1869M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 179 The stellar worlds, this earth included. 1875Whitney Life Lang. vi. 99 A mishap due to a baleful stellar aspect. 1888Times (weekly ed.) 14 Sept. 3/2 This stellar origin of totemism goes far to account for the widespread character of the institution. 1975Physics Bull. Nov. 484/3 Astrophysicists use the term white dwarfs to describe objects which are stellar, that is to say luminous by themselves, but with a low luminosity and a small radius.
2. Star-shaped, stellate. Chiefly of crystals; also Arch. in stellar vault (see quot. 1835), stellar groining.
1670Phil. Trans. V. 1199 The Stellar Fish described in Numb. 57. 1835R. Willis Archit. Mid. Ages vii. 85, I would call this class of decorated vaults Stellar vaults, from the regular stellate form they assume on the plan. 1841Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 286/1 The vaulting immediately preceding fan groining,..designated as stellar groining. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 383 It may be advisable to make a clump of planting of a stellar form. 1845G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. (1846) I. 55 Urate of soda..occasionally constitutes a very peculiar stellar form of deposit in the urine. 1851E. Sharpe Seven Periods Archit. 36 The plans of these vaultings are very various; some are called Fan-tracery vaults, and others Stellar vaults, terms which explain themselves. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 299 Occasionally stellar phosphate—that is dicalcic phosphate—is thrown down when the acidity of the urine is diminished.
3. Having the quality of a star (star n.1 5); leading, outstanding. So ˈstellardom, stardom. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1883N.Y. Mercury 3 Nov. 2/2 Effie Ellsler's dramatic stellardom is at an end and the supporting cast will be disbanded. 1883Sunday Mercury (N.Y.) 4 Nov. 7/3 A fine specialty performance will be given by selected stellar artists. 1912M. B. Leavitt Fifty Years Theatr. Managem. xxx. 464 In those days a theatrical star was obliged to work his way up to the rungs of the legitimate ladder until he was found worthy of ranking in stellardom... It made good actors,..who have since taken their places as leaders in the stellar ranks. 1932Kaufman & Ryskud Of Thee I Sing i. iv. 75 The two centre chairs are conspicuously empty, obviously waiting for the stellar pair. 1950J. Dempsey Championship Fighting 26 It is only in..‘partial’ punches that the body-weight does not play a stellar role. 1958Wodehouse Cocktail Time xviii. 156 A man of regular habits, he would normally have shrunk from playing a stellar role in an E. Phillips Oppenheim story. 1964W. C. Putnam Geol. ix. 215/1 Second of the factors is the nature of the ground. San Francisco, l906, and Long Beach, 1933, both [earthquakes] in California, are stellar examples of the importance of this control. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 25 June 804/5 The most spectacular book sale held this spring... The stellar attraction was the whole Book of Daniel, twelve leaves, from the Trier copy of the 42-line or Gutenberg Bible, 1455. 1977Amer. N. & Q. XV. 94/1 He has eschewed the glitter of Hollywood which has lured and made stellar personalities out of so many of his fellow novelists. |