Cererian

cererian English Alternative forms en cererian en Cererean en Ceresian en Cerean Etymology From en la Cereris, genitive case of la Cerēs. Pronunciation Cererian or Cererean: en /səˈɹɪəɹɪ.ən/ Adjective en adjective Of or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres en 1823 William Booth Flowers of Roman poesy Nasidien 42 Sprinkled with salt and Cererean grain en 1878 William Thomas Thornton Word for word from Horace Epode 16 314 An untilled soil its yearly growth of grain Cererian yields en 1986 Sarah Iles Johnston The Journal of Indo-European studies 44 14 As a divinity of the earth, Mefitis shows in fact two aspects: cererian, she is goddess of plowing [...], and chthonian en 2004 Sarah Iles Johnston Religions of the ancient world 233 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 Of or relating to the dwarf planet–asteroid Ceres en 2006 August Tom Buckner Letters Discover Magazine 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. en 2012 A.S. Rivkin; et al. Christopher Russell; Carol Raymond, The Dawn Mission to Minor Planets 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres The Surface Composition of Ceres 109 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. en 2012-09-21 Dawn Spacecraft Finds Traces of Water on Vesta Sci-Tech Daily 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. Related terms en cereal Noun An inhabitant of the asteroid Ceres en 2009 225 Martin Beech Terraforming Future, home-born Cererians will presumably become better adapted to their low gravitational environment en eponyms en Celestial inhabitants