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ecliptical, a.|ɪˈklɪptɪkəl|
[f. ecliptic + -al1.]
Pertaining to the ecliptic; situated on the ecliptic.
1556Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 281 The Eclipticall pointes, whiche be commonly called the Headde and the Tayle of the Dragon. 1885Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 429 In carrying out the work of ecliptical charting..M. M. Henry..resolved..to have recourse to the Camera.
¶ Used in error for elliptical.
1583Fulke Defence (1843) 402 When the sentence is ecliptical or defective. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xii. 299 He conceives this word, On mine Honour, wraps up a great deal in it..and no lesse then an eclipticall oath, calling God to witnesse, who hath bestowed that Honour upon him.
Hence eˈcliptically adv., in the direction of the sun's (apparent) annual motion in the ecliptic.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus, The flower twists Aequinoctionally from the left hand to the right..the stalk twineth ecliptically from the right to the left. |