| 单词 |
sun-stead |
| 释义 |
† ˈsun-stead Obs.
Also 7 -steed, -sted.
[In OE. sun(n)stede, transl. L. sōlstitium solstice: see sun n.1 and stead n. 1.]
= solstice 1.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 250 Sumor..hæfð sunnstede..winter..hæfð oþerne sunnstede.
1600Holland Livy xliv. xxxvi. 1193 Now was it the season of the yeer past sun-stead in summer. 1601― Pliny ii. xix. I. 13 To lengthen the night from the summer sunne⁓steed. a1636C. Fitzgeffrey Holy Transp. Wks. (Grosart) 169 The season of the yeare wherein our Saviour was borne: namely in the Winter Solstice or Sun-stead. 1638W. Lisle Heliodorus ix. 148 When Summer and Sunsted makes the longest day.
b. The solstitial point (= solstice 2), or the tropic (tropic n. 1 b).
1601Holland Pliny ii. lxxvii. I. 36 The position of the Zodiake about the middle parts thereof, is more oblique and crooked, but toward the Sunne-steed more streight and direct. 1601Dolman La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618) III. 684 The points of the..Zodiacke, which are the meanes betweene the said Equinoctial points are named Sunsteads or Tropicks. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 56 If those Instruments [sc. hour-glasses and sun-dials] should agree under the æquinoctial lines, they should varie..under the Sol-stices or Sun-steads. |
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