paraselenen.

1651 W. Lilly Monarchy or No Monarchy 118 There appeared almost in every year after 1644. severall Parelia or Mock-Suns; sometimes two, sometimes three. So also Mock-Moones or Paraselenes, which were the greatest Prodegies I ever observed or feared.

1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme iii. xvi. §9 It should seem a hundred times more easy for natural Causes to hit upon a Paraster or Parastron (for let Analogy embolden me so to call these seldom or never seen Phænomena..) than upon a Parelios or Paraselene.

1749 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 524 Besides these four Segments, what was most remarkable was a Mock-Moon or Paraselene B, shaped like a Mock-Sun or Parhelius.

1790 E. Umfreville Present State of Hudson's Bay 24 Paraselenes or mock moons appear, when the vapours arising from open water become condensed by the frost.

1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage xxxvi. 501 A large and beautiful halo round the moon, with four paraselenæ.

1872 Chambers's Encycl. III. 86/1 This variety [of cloud] oftenest presents the finest solar and lunar halos, parhelias and paraselenes.

1972 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 83 58 Refraction by such crystals produces the eastern and western paraselenae which can only occur on the parhelic circle and consequently at the same altitude as the true Moon.

1997 E. Hand Glimmering i. iii. 63 An increase in the sightings of other previously rare phenomena, parhelia or sun dogs and the refracted moonlight called paraselenae which sometimes appears in the darkness.

1887 Science 4 Feb. 112/1 The paraselenic circle was complete, and beautifully contrasted with the dark sky.

2001 Weatherwise (Nexis) 1 Sept. 6 On the evening of 14 November 1975, a paraselenic circle appeared over Tucson, Arizona.