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Saudi Arabia (oh) and astral (iou)


Saudi Arabia (oh)



an oil-producing country in the Middle East, ruled by a king. Population: 22,757,000 (2001). Capital: Riyadh. The city of Mecca, the holiest place in the Religion of Islam, is in Saudi Arabia.
-- Saudi Arabian n adj

astral (iou)



astral adjective & noun. E17.
[Late Latin astralis, from astrum star: see -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Of, connected with, or proceeding from the stars. E17.
astral spirits: those formerly thought to inhabit celestial objects.
Star-shaped, starlike. L17.
astral lamp Hist. a kind of Argand lamp.
Theosophy. Pertaining to or consisting of an ethereal substance supposed to be next above the material world in refinement and to pervade all space. L19.
astral body the ethereal counterpart of a human or animal body.
Cytology. Of or pertaining to an aster. L19.
b. noun.
Hist. An astral lamp. M19.
Theosophy. An astral body. L19.
astrally adverb (a) according to the stars; (b) in or through the powers of the astral body: L17.