Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-STEL-LA'TION, n.

1. A cluster of fixed stars; an asterism; a number of stars which appear as if situated near each other in the heavens, and are considered as forming a particular division. The constellations are reduced mostly to the figures of certain animals or other known things, as the bear, the bull, the ram, the balance, &c. For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, shall not give their light. – Is. xiii.
2. An assemblage of splendors or excellencies. – Hammond.