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astral
/ˈæstɹəl/
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What does astral mean?
adjective
- Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.
- Relating to an aster.
- Composed of ethereal material or non-physical (sometimes supersensible), and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body (as an astral body) to travel to other places or to other realms of existence (in or via the astral plane).
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noun
- A supernatural being from the astral plane.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæstɹəl/
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It was like a breath of astral incense, announcing the presence of the priests of death.
It is evident that this house is related to the elementals of the astral plane, which become the servitors of man.
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The insect tribe was wonderfully called into life, as if animated beings were destined to complete the destruction which astral and telluric powers had begun.
He burns, too, the purest of oil, in its unmanufactured, and, therefore, unvitiated state; a fluid unknown to solar, lunar, or astral contrivances ashore.
Our own language is rich in words of astral significance derived from the Greek, e.g., disaster.