† Saturnallyadv.
Astrology. Obsolete. rare.
In regard to or in accordance with the supposed influence of the planet Saturn.
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 315 So are they more or lesse merilie & Giovially, or rudely and Saturnally [Fr. lourdement] incorporated.
1820 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Comm. Plato I. i. 124 But if it be requisite to narrate what follows from the conception of Porphyry, it must be said, that the soul lives indeed intellectually and Saturnally on high, but descends first to the conception of a political life, which is Jovian.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019).
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