equinoctinal
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4VERB + EQUINOCTINAL
designated
EQUINOCTINAL + NOUN
colure, gales, graduate, t
PREP.
in, on
ADV.
almost, always, often
Definitions
adj
Synonym of equinoctial.
The equinoctinal gales are often ministers of vengeance, scattering desolation on sea and land.
Since solar and sidereal time are estimated from the passage of the sun and the equinoctial point across the meridian of each place, the hours are different at different places: while it is one o'clock at one place it is two at another, three at another, &c.;
noun
The celestial equator.
I intend to consider the English colonies under two principal divisions; the first I allot to those islands which lie under the torrid zone between the tropic of Cancer and the Equinoctinal line, in that part generally called the West-Indies.
1. With a Pair of Compasses take the nearest Distance from the Sun's Place in the Ecliptic 29d. in ϒs, to the Equinoctial on the Globe, 2. Measure that Distance on the Equinoctinal Colure (if graduated) and it sheweth the Declination 20d.20m. as before.
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6The equinoctinal gales are often ministers of vengeance, scattering desolation on sea and land.
WiktionarySince solar and sidereal time are estimated from the passage of the sun and the equinoctial point across the meridian of each place, the hours are different at different places: while it is one o'cloc
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Wiktionary1. With a Pair of Compasses take the nearest Distance from the Sun's Place in the Ecliptic 29d. in ϒs, to the Equinoctial on the Globe, 2. Measure that Distance on the Equinoctinal Colure (if graduate
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