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单词 last quarter
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last quarter
c. A fourth part of a lunar month. Also: the state or astronomical position of the moon when halfway between new and full moon ( first quarter) or between full and new moon ( last quarter); quadrature. Also figurative.
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month > periods within or phases of the moon
full moonOE
new moonOE
waningc1000
new of the moona1398
quarter?a1425
plenilune?a1475
neomeniaa1535
lunationc1549
interlune1561
wane1563
neomeny1569
dark of the moon1591
month of apparition1594
dark moon1615
plenilunium1615
moon1709
interlunation1813
quartering1880
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > lunar month > [noun] > fourth part of
quarter?a1425
quartering1880
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 149 Þe moone may noȝt be sene þare bot in þe secund quartere [?a1425 Titus quarteroun].
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 2768 (MED) Sche gan anoon to casten..Whanne þat þe mone on heuen wolde aryse..And fonde a quarter was passid after pryme..And complete was seuen daies of hir age.
1546 tr. A. P. Gasser Prognostication sig. Bijb The last quarter of the mone shalbe on the. xxii. day at. vii. of the clock after noone.
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour i. i. sig. B1v His sheepe sheering..Is in every quarter of the Moone, and constant.
1694 W. Holder Disc. Time v. 82 How near she is to her Quarters, Full, or next New-moon.
1728 H. Pemberton View Sir I. Newton's Philos. 201 But..in the quarters the moon..will be made to approach it [sc. the earth].
1799 M. Park Trav. Interior Districts Afr. xxi. 272 It is thought very unlucky to begin a journey, or any other work of consequence, in the last quarter.
1806 C. Lamb Let. 15 Jan. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 200 Prudentia is in the last quarter of her tutelary shining over me.
1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. xi. 189 We sometimes see the moon in her first quarter with one bright luminous border.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 553 When the moon appears exactly as a half-moon, 90° from the sun towards the east, she is in the first quarter.
1886 R. A. Proctor Moon (ed. 3) iii. 94 The first-quarter moon is in Virgo, and about twelve hours above the horizon.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 309 The virgin moon being then in her first quarter, it came to pass that those learned judges repaired them to the halls of law.
1981 P. H. Cadogan Moon i. 10 Aristarchus recognised that the angle between the Earth, the Moon and the Sun must be 90° when the Moon is at either first or last quarter.
2005 Grow your Own Dec. 50/2 The New Moon is for planting, the First Quarter for feeding, the Full Moon for harvest and the Last Quarter for destroying crop residue.
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