Lexicographical Neighbors of Acronycal
Literary usage of Acronycal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Science: Comprising Astronomy, Chemistry, Dynamics by George Farrer Rodwell (1873)
"A celestial object is said to be acronycal when it is opposite the sun, and so
culminates at midnight. When a star rises as the sun sets, it is said to rise ..."
2. The Orion; Or, Researches Into the Antiquity of the Vedas by Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1893)
"... extended in tht,so days from time heliacal to tim acronycal rising of Orion ;
that is, when Orion rose with the sun, it was the venial equinox, ..."
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