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† ˈvertent, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. vertent-, vertens, pres. pple. of vertĕre to turn, etc.]
vertent year, a cycle of the celestial bodies, containing 15,000 solar years.
After L. annus vertens (Cicero Rep. vi. 22, 24).
1635Heywood Hierarch. iii. 147 This great and vertent yeare is, when we see All stars and planets brought to their first station After their much and long Peregrination. 1636― Love's Mistress 2nd Prol., Who so un-read, doth not of Plato heare, His Annus Magnus, and his Vertent yeare? |