equinoctial line

American  

noun

1. celestial equator.

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Etymology

Origin of equinoctial line

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

It is true that the sun has very great power there, for the country is distant only twenty-six degrees from the equinoctial line.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)

Peel's politics to both sides so incline, He may be called the equinoctial line.

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark

We who reside in Lisbon, nearly forty degrees north of the equinoctial line, are distant from those who reside on the other side of the line, in angular meridional length, ninety degrees—that is, obliquely.

From Amerigo Vespucci by Ober, Frederick Albion

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

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

When we had sailed for 300 leagues, being 3� to the south of the equinoctial line, a land was sighted 130 at a distance of twenty-two leagues, at which we were astonished.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las