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单词 constellate
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Definition of constellate in English:

constellate

verb ˈkɒnstəleɪtˈkɑnstəleɪt
literary
  • Form or cause to form into a cluster or group; gather together.

    〈诗/文〉(使)群集,(使)星罗棋布;(使)形成星座

    no object the towns and valleys where people constellate

    人们聚集的城镇和山谷。

    with object their stories were never constellated

    他们的故事从未编辑成集。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Margaret, the protagonist and instigator, is a Caribbean immigrant who embodies a form of diasporic consciousness that seamlessly constellates Canada, America, and the West Indies.
    • One of the many folk songs constellated around the full-scale Byzantine epic of Dhiyenis Akritas has the hero telling how he passed through ‘the mountains of Araby, the Syrian gorges’ with ‘my four-foot sword, my three-fathom spear’.
    • You know, certain people are just more coherent than others, and maybe when they die, they don't get all blown apart, but have constellated a bunch of things around a certain core element of soul, and that inhabits something new.
    • His accounts of object related internal objects, unconscious phantasies and mental mechanism are constellated around two categories of functioning, called positions.
    • Its basically a pictorial guided to psychology, and is meant to help you interpret how these things are constellated in you, what forces are being brought to bear invisibly, etc.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from late Latin constellatus, from con- 'together' + stellatus 'arranged like a star'.

Definition of constellate in US English:

constellate

verbˈkɑnstəleɪtˈkänstəlāt
literary
  • Form or cause to form into a cluster or group; gather together.

    〈诗/文〉(使)群集,(使)星罗棋布;(使)形成星座

    no object the towns and valleys where people constellate

    人们聚集的城镇和山谷。

    with object their stories were never constellated

    他们的故事从未编辑成集。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Its basically a pictorial guided to psychology, and is meant to help you interpret how these things are constellated in you, what forces are being brought to bear invisibly, etc.
    • Margaret, the protagonist and instigator, is a Caribbean immigrant who embodies a form of diasporic consciousness that seamlessly constellates Canada, America, and the West Indies.
    • One of the many folk songs constellated around the full-scale Byzantine epic of Dhiyenis Akritas has the hero telling how he passed through ‘the mountains of Araby, the Syrian gorges’ with ‘my four-foot sword, my three-fathom spear’.
    • You know, certain people are just more coherent than others, and maybe when they die, they don't get all blown apart, but have constellated a bunch of things around a certain core element of soul, and that inhabits something new.
    • His accounts of object related internal objects, unconscious phantasies and mental mechanism are constellated around two categories of functioning, called positions.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from late Latin constellatus, from con- ‘together’ + stellatus ‘arranged like a star’.

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