The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constellate \Con"stel*late\ (? or ?), v. i. [Pref. con- + L. stellatus, p. p. of stellare to cover with stars, stella star. See Stellate.] To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light. [R.]
The several things which engage our affections . . .
shine forth and constellate in God.
--Boule.
Constellate \Con"stel*late\, v. t.
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To unite in one luster or radiance, as stars. [R.]
Whe know how to constellate these lights.
--Boyle. To set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens.
--J. Barlow.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To combine as a cluster. 2 (context transitive English) To fit, adorn (as if) with constellations. 3 (context intransitive English) To (form a) cluster. 4 (context intransitive English) To shine with united radiance, or one general light.
WordNet
Usage examples of "constellate".
Moths were loosely constellated on the curved plastic of the Fanta sign, trying to get next to the bright heat inside it, and he had a sense of relation, of sharing their yearning for the impossible.
But life today is so complex, and it is changing so fast, that there is no time for anything to constellate itself before it's thrown over again.
Get in there and compete with all the ass kissers and bottom feeders, all the no-talent schmucks that constellate around the studio execs who don’t know what they’re doing either.
Thus begins, so help me Muse, the tidewater tale of twin Bellerophon, mythic hero, cousin to constellated Perseus: how he flew and reflew Pegasus the winged horse.
Because, even though THL had in the sudden great showdown toppled the combined probe constellated out of the resources of its two immense opponents, the citizens of Terra had already been briefed fully, had already been exposed systematically to the entire truth—and nothing, short of planet-wide genocide, could reverse that.
And passion is the further separating of this mixture, that which is manly being taken into the being of the man, that which is womanly passing to the woman, till the two are clear and whole as angels, the admixture of sex in the highest sense surpassed, leaving two single beings constellated together like two stars.
DeLint's back is pale and constellated with red pits of old pimples, though the back's nothing compared to Struck's or Shaw's back.
Around that one word he constellates useful information from Charles's memory cull, which tells him that imagination is the psychic process that transforms the pain and limitations of the purely physical.
And so in this marvelous family of languages their songs explored the various manifestations of reality, in the different fields of science, and each science worked up its standard model to explain things, all constellating at some distance around the basics of particle physics, depending on what level or scale was being investigated, so that all the standard models hopefully interlocked in a coherent larger structure.
But of course the ploy had succeeded because of the 'wash psychiatrist's accurate diagnosis of all the passive factors constellating in Theo Ferry's psyche.
Being a beauty always means constellating some ideal related to the historical period where it appears, and Mary-Jacobine, now known as Jacko Cornish, was a Beauty of the Twenties.