equinoctiumn.
Obsolete. rare.
Equinox; (the original form in which the word was adopted).
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evenlengtha1325
equinoctiumc1400
equinoctial?a1475
equinoction1483
vernal equinox (or equinoctial)1534
level1548
equinox1588
autumnal equinox1594
autumn equinox1594
equinoctian1627
fall equinox1844
c1400 Mandeville Trav. (1839) xvii. 183 [At Jerusalem]..a spere that is pight in to the erthe, vpon the hour of mydday whan it is Equenoxium..scheweth no schadwe.
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Biiiv He should directly know..that, whiche they call Equinoctium, and Solsticium.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 77 Natural Tempestes are greatest about the Æquinoctia.
a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ttt3/1 Give me a man..Has a good stroake at Tennis..Can play at Equinoctium with the Line.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 16 The Colure of the Equinoctiums or equinoxes.
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