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单词 cardinal house
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cardinal house
b. In relation to a horoscope: designating the principal points or angles of a chart (ascendant, imum coeli, descendant, and mid-heaven; see cardinal point n. 2); of or relating to these points, spec. designating the houses containing them (the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth houses), esp. in cardinal house. Cf. angular adj. 1.
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?1585 W. Perkins Resol. to Countrey-man in Foure Great Lyers sig. D8 They make..the fourth house to bee of greater power then any aboue the Horizon not Cardinall.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 221 The second Cardinal house is the fourth, called the low heaven.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 742/1 Each of this triple series was composed of a cardinal, a succeeding, and a declining or cadent house.
1907 A. Leo Pract. Astrol. (rev. ed.) ix. 61 We have now eight divisions, each line marked A marking off the ‘cusp’, as it is called, of the four ‘cardinal’ or ‘angular’ houses or ‘angles’.
2009 G. Geffner Creative Step-parenting vi. 79 He has planets in three cardinal houses, suggesting action on his part during his lifetime.
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