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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1409-1436, 1604-1649
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Stellify, -i(e, v. [ME and e.m.E. stellifye (Chaucer), OF stellifier, med. L. stellificare.] To transform into a star or other heavenly body, to place among the stars; to immortalise. b. fig. To set (the ground) with flowers as if with stars. — c1409-1436 Kingis Quair § 52.
Venus clere! Of goddis stellifyit! a1605 Montg. Misc. P. lvii 3.
If ethnik ald by superstitious stylis … Wer stellified to rule the rolling spheirs 1626 Garden Worthies 165.
There worthie deeds … hes magnify'd there name, Yea stellifi'd and streach't it to the starrs —b. a1649 Drummond I 25/6.
With roses here shee stellified the ground
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