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Asʹtrophel

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Sir Philip Sidney. “Phil. Sid.” being a contraction of Philos Sidus, and the Latin sidus being changed to the Greek astron, we get astron-philos (star-lover). The “starthat he loved was Penelope Devereux, whom he called Stella (star), and to whom he was betrothed. Edmund Spenser wrote a pastoral called Astrophel, to the memory of his friend and patron, who fell at the battle of Zutphen. (1554–1586.)

 

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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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Astolpho (in Orlando Furioso)
Astoreth
Astræa
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Astral Spirits
Astrea
Astrology
Astronomer of Dublin (The)
Astronomers Royal:
Astrophel
Asylum
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At
Ate
Atellanæ
Atergata
Athanasian Creed
Athelstane
Athenæum (the review so called)
Athenian Bee