cererian

1. alternativenot comparablerareAlternative spelling of Cererian.

alternative cererian · alternative Cererean · alternative Ceresian · alternative Cerean

1. Of or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres

   Sprinkled with salt and Cererean grain

   1823, William Booth, “Nasidien”, in Flowers of Roman poesy, page 42

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   An untilled soil its yearly growth of grain Cererian yields

   1878, William Thomas Thornton, “Epode 16”, in Word for word from Horace, page 314

   As a divinity of the earth, Mefitis shows in fact two aspects: cererian, she is goddess of plowing [...], and chthonian

   1986, Sarah Iles Johnston, The Journal of Indo-European studies, volume 14, page 44

   We find, for example, at Agnone a "Cererian" Hercules and at Rossano a "Mefitanian" Mamers (= Mars); presumably these two major Italic divinities, Hercules and Mamers, were the "guests" of Ceres and Mefitis

   2004, Sarah Iles Johnston, Religions of the ancient world, page 233

2. Of or relating to the dwarf planet–asteroid Ceres

   Brucite itself has not been observed in meteorites in the amounts implied by Ceres' spectrum, which seems to minimize the likelihood that any Cererean material has been found by meteorite hunters.

   2012, A.S. Rivkin et al., “The Surface Composition of Ceres”, in Christopher Russell, Carol Raymond,, editors, The Dawn Mission to Minor Planets 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres, page 109

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   Most of the ship's mass would be Cererian water; Earth would supply the crew, the ship's skin, and the engines. Ceres' surface gravity is about ¹/₃₆ Earth's gravity, and the asteroid is just close enough to the sun for it to power the machinery. Cererian water may unlock the solar system.

   2006 August, Tom Buckner, “Letters”, in Discover Magazine

   Vesta is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth and its maximum distance from the Sun is slightly farther than the minimum distance of Ceres from the Sun (2.56AU). However its orbit lies entirely within the Cererian orbit.

   2012 September 21, “Dawn Spacecraft Finds Traces of Water on Vesta”, in Sci-Tech Daily

plural Cererians · alternative cererian · alternative Cererean · alternative Ceresian · alternative Cerean

1. An inhabitant of the asteroid Ceres

   Future, home-born Cererians will presumably become better adapted to their low gravitational environment

   2009, Martin Beech, Terraforming, page 225