单词 | moon's age |
释义 | > as lemmasmoon's age a. age of the moon (also moon's age and variants): the number of days since the occurrence of the new moon. Now archaic and historical. [Compare post-classical Latin lunae aetas (8th cent. in a British source), Old French, Middle French aage de la lune, French âge de la lune (13th cent.; rare before late 17th cent.).] ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month > number of days since new moon age of the moonc1425 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2775 (MED) Þe ferþe parte Of þe mone was schad with new liȝt..And complete was seuen daies of hir age. 1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. Eiv Multiply the age of the Moone, by 4, and devide by 10. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse sig. Tiv (table) Moones age howe to finde it at all times. 1676 P. S. (title) A table of the moons age throughout the year, and tyde-table. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Moon To find the Moon's Age. To the Day of the Month add the Epact of the Year, and the Months from March inclusive. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlv. 540 Hence it happens, that in every period of 19 years, the moon's age is the same on the same day of the year. 1909 Pop. Mech. Sept. 299/1 There is a small disk, B, numbered from 1 to 30, giving days of the moon's age. 2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time ii. 24 In other calendars of this type, the age of the waning moon is counted backwards. < as lemmas |
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