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单词 equinoctial point
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equinoctial point
1. Pertaining to a state of equal day and night. equinoctial line, circle (in Milton equinoctial road), the celestial or terrestrial equator. Cf. B. 1, A. 2 equinoctial point = equinox n. 2.
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c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §25. 35 Tak his nethere elongacioun lengthing fro the same equinoxial lyne.
?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Bii So haue we sayled ouer ye linie equinocciall.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 39 There is ane vthir circle of the spere callit, the circle equinoctial.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Bv For vnder the lyne equynoctyall..lyeth..greate and wyde desertes.
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxvi. 318 The diurnal revolution is from the motion of the Earth, by which the Æquinoctial Circle is described about it.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 672 Som say the Sun Was bid turn Reines from th' Equinoctial Rode. View more context for this quotation
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. § 29. 305 To determine the places of the Stars in respect of the Equinoctial and Solstitial points.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. ix. 420 The origin of the Indian zodiac did not coincide with the equinoxial point.
1837 D. Brewster Treat. Magnetism 238 The magnetic equator will meet the equinoctial line only in two points.
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