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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Equinoctial(l, a. and n. Also: æquinoctial, equenoxiale, equanocticall. [ME. equinoctiall, -noxial (Chaucer), L. œquinoctiālis.]
1. adj. Pertaining to the equinox.1490 Irland Mir. I. 78/24.
Mony trowis that it [Paradise] is vndir the cirkile equenoxiale 1549 Compl. 49/29.
There is ane vthir circle of the spere, callit the circle equinoctial
2. n. The celestial equator; the equinox.1535 Stewart 3021.
Of signifer the greit obliquitie, … Be intersit of equanocticall 1549 Compl. 52/21.
The pepil that duellis vndir the equinoctial ar blac of ther cullour Ib. 56/35.
Quhen ther multipleis ane grit numir of sternis in the equinoctial of Libra 1581 Burne Disput. 164 b.
Of the quhilk [festivals] the ane befel in the solstitial of vynter, and the vthir efter the æquinoctial of the spring tyme
