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What is the adjective for heliacally?

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heliacal
  1. (rare) Of or relating to the Sun, especially rising and setting with the sun.
  2. Of or relating to the rising of a star when it first becomes visible just before sunrise in the eastern sky, having previously been made invisible by sunlight, or the analogous situation of its setting just after sunset.
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    1. “The Greeks and Romans, with fairly useless calendars, continued to depend upon observing the heliacal risings and settings of stars.”
      “It is possible that all the planetary orbs originate from an early attempt to record heliacal obscurity.”
      “The heliacal rising of a constellation is when it comes from under the rays of the sun, and begins to appear before daylight.”
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