æquinox
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
æquinox (plural æquinoxes or æquinoctes)
- Obsolete spelling of equinox
- 1692 December 15, Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Frame of the World. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] H[enry] Mortlock […], published 1693, →OCLC, pages 25–26:
- [T]he Months of March and September, the tvvo Æquinoxes of Our year, are the moſt vvindy and tempeſtuous, the moſt unſettled and unequable of Seaſons in moſt Countries of the VVorld.
- 1854, John Williams, “Pro-consul. b.c. 55.”, in The Life of Julius Cæsar, London, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] Routledge & Co., […], →OCLC, page 195:
- For [Julius] Cæsar says, that on the night of the fourth day after his landing there was a full moon. He had before mentioned that the summer was far spent, and the æquinox not come, hence, the full moon must have been either in July or August.