| 单词 | planetary hour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplanetary hour planetary hour n. [compare French heure planétaire (1611 in Cotgrave in sense ‘one twelfth of the natural day or night’)] (a) (now historical) one twelfth of the natural day or night (varying in length according to the time of the year and the latitude of the observer), esp. (in Astrology) such a period ruled by a particular planet; †(b) an auspicious time as determined from the positions of the planets. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > hour > [noun] tidea900 hourc1250 timea1325 hourglass1588 planetary hour1593 clock hour1600 ghurry1638 stricken hour1820 lunar hour1862 1593 [see sense A. 1a]. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §11 I was born in the Planetary hour of Saturn. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 109 This, gather'd in the Planetary Hour, With noxious Weeds, and spell'd with Words of pow'r. View more context for this quotation 1792 E. Jerningham Stone Henge 8 From sacred flocks their earliest fleeces wound. Shorn in the due, the planetary hour, When moons propitious shone with sovereign pow'r. 1872 Atlantic Monthly June 746/2 The healing virtues of many other herbs were ascribed to the planet under whose ascendency they were to be collected... A mistake in attending to the planetary hour would render these substances entirely inert. 1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 929/1 Because these hours varied in length as the duration of the period of daylight and darkness changed with the seasons, they were referred to as temporal, unequal, or sometimes planetary hours. < as lemmas |
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