equinoctial line

noun

1. celestial equator.

Word History and Origins

Origin of equinoctial line¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

I met with them both in northern and southern Brazil, and have seen them in collections from Par� directly under the equinoctial line.

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Such rivers abounded from the equinoctial line to the Gulf of St. Michael.

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We ran for five days, always coming towards the equinoctial line, where the air and sea became more temperate.

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Crossing the equinoctial line, Our Artist discovers that the rays of a vertical sun are anything but bracing and cool.

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He was willing to concede that the geographical position of Paradise was not in Mesopotamia, yet he maintained that it was upon the earth, and in the southern hemisphere, near the equinoctial line.

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