Definition of New phase of the moon

1. Noun. The time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent.

Exact synonyms: New Moon
Group relationships: Month
Generic synonyms: Phase Of The Moon

Lexicographical Neighbors of New Phase Of The Moon

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new lads
new lease on life
new line
new math
new media
new methylene blue
new money
new moon
new moons
new mutation
new pence
new pennies
new penny
new phase of the moon (current term)
new potato
new potatoes
new school
new shekel
new shekels
new sheqalim
new sheqel
new sheqels
new south wales
new standard
new to(p)
new town
new towns
new up

Literary usage of New phase of the moon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Basis of Sabbath and Sunday: A New Investigation After the Manner by Robert John Floody (1906)
"1 The picture of the new phase of the moon, with an altar attached to it, reveals, as clearly as such could, that the new phases of the moon were worshipped ..."

2. Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History by Charles Foster Kent, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (1912)
"The new moon, therefore, marked the beginning of the month and each succeeding Sabbath a new phase of the moon. The fourth commandment seems, therefore, ..."

3. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History from the Creation to the Death by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"If the sabbath, therefore, was originally a sacred day, observed at the beginning of each new phase of the moon, there is every reason to believe that it ..."

4. The Rhineland by Walter Marsden (1973)
"Others include the moon and star, because they have come out by the time people go home, and because Lent begins with a new phase of the moon. ..."

5. A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents by James Martineau (1900)
"Thus, swift as are the undulations of light, a new phase of the moon would earlier reach an eye nearer to it by a thousand miles than it reaches ours; ..."

6. Siam in the Twentieth Century: Being the Experiences and Impressions of a by J. G. D. Campbell (1902)
"... places of business are closed, while no official notice is taken of the Siamese wan phra, or holiday, which occurs at every new phase of the moon. ..."

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