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Astarʹte (3 syl.)

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Goddess of the Moon, in Phœnician mythology.

“With these in troop


Came Astoreth, whom the Phœnicians called

Astartë, queen of heaven, with crescent harns.”


Milton: Paradise Lost, i. 437–9.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Assaye Regiment
Assiento Treaties. [Spanish, agreement treaties.]
Assinego
Assumption (Feast of the)
Assurance
Astagoras (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Astarte
Astarte
Astolat
Astolpho (in Orlando Furioso)
Astoreth
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Astral Body (The)
Astral Spirits
Astrea
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Astronomer of Dublin (The)

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