Definition of "canicular" []

• Of or relating to Sirius or Procyon. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the dog days. (adjective)

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• "Summer in the canicular South of France requires an extra-strength solution!"
• "Tiltass, but are you solarly salemly sure, beyond the shatter of the canicular year?"
• "So that henceforth let no man feare to take either easie purgatives, or other inward Physicke, in the time of the canicular, or dog-dayes."