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▪ I. † auge, v. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. augē-re to increase.]
trans. To increase.
1542Boorde Dyetary xii. 266 It doth auge and augment the heate of the lyuer.
▪ II. † auge, n. Astr. Obs.
[a. OF. auge (also in It. and Sp.), a. Arab. awj, ‘height, top, summit, higher apsis of sun or planet.’]
1. The highest point of the apparent course of the sun, moon, or a planet; fig. culmination, climax; = apogee 2, 3.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. ix. 405 They were in the Auge, or in the Zenith, in their first loue. a1679T. Goodwin Wks. (1864) VIII. 445 The promises..in the Old Testament..were in their prime, in their auge.
2. The ‘high apsis’ in the orbit of the moon or any planet; i.e. the point at which it is at its greatest distance from the earth; = apogee 1.
1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. i. viii. 287 Auges..be certaine imagined points in the heaven, notifying the furthest distance of any Orbe or Spheare from the Center of the world. Ibid. vii. xliv. 730 His [the moon's] slow motion is when he is in the point called Auge or Apogeon.
3. Extended to both apsides.
1681Wharton Mut. Empires Wks. (1683) 131 When the Auges, (or Absides) of the Planets are changed from one Sign to another. 1751Chambers Cycl., Auges, two points in a planet's orbit, otherwise called apsides. One of the auges is particularly denominated the apogee, the other perigee.
4. The orbit of a planet; = apsis 1.
1601Holland Pliny I. 10 Those eccentrique circles or Epicycles in the stars, which the Greeks call Absides..Now euery one of the planets haue particular Auges or circles aforesaid by themselues. |