| 释义 |
vespertine, a. (and n.)|ˈvɛspətaɪn, -ɪn|
[ad. L. vespertīn-us (hence also OF. vespertin, It., Sp., Pg. vespertino), f. vesper vesper: see -ine1.]
1. Of or pertaining to the evening; coming, occurring, or taking place in the evening; spec. in Astrol. (cf. 2).
1502Arnolde Chron. 168 Yf thou wil kepe late set plantis, kepe hem from vespertyn reynes. c1550Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 695 Fra Phebus rais to the hour vespertine. c1610Sir C. Heydon Astrol. Disc. (1650) 60 The second is..the Vespertine oriental Apparition, which he calleth the last rising. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1638) 217 The starres; their heliacall, acronicall, matutine, and vespertine motions. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 33 The Morning and Vespertin Service in that Church. 1812Cary Dante, Purg. xv. 140 Far onward as our eyes..could stretch against the bright Vespertine ray. 1851Glenny Handbk. Fl. Gard. 68 It is desirable on account of its powerful vespertine fragrance. 1901Athenæum 28 Dec. 877 The vespertine portion of the ecclesiastical day.
b. Of animals, birds, etc.: Appearing or especially active in the evening.
In quot. 1607 after L. lupus vespertinus, the Vulgate rendering of Heb. z'ēb ﻋereb in Hab. i. 8.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 435 This first and vulgar kinde of Hyæna is bred in Affricke and Arabia... God himselfe in holy scripture calleth it by the name of a Vespertine Wolfe. 1802Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 114 Vespertine Frog... Native of Siberia. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v., The vespertine or evening grosbeak, Hesperiphona vespertina.
†c. Dim, imperfect. Obs.—1
1623Bp. Hall Best Bargaine Wks. (1625) 518 If ye had already that vespertine knowledge of the Saints which ye shall once haue in heauen.
2. Astr. and Astrol. Of a star, planet, etc.: Setting at or just after sunset.
1601Holland Pliny ii. xvi. I. 11 These stars or planets in their evening setting, are neerest to the earth:..and then they be called Occidentall Vespertine, i. when the sun toward the evening covereth them with his raies. 1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. cxxvii. 577 An Infortune in the Nativity,..if Vespertine, [shows] long Diseases. 1679Moxon Math. Dict., Vespertine, when a Planet sets after the Sun. [Hence in Harris, Kersey, etc.] 1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 449 She [i.e. Venus] is..sometimes almost Full, at other times Gibbous,..as well when she is Vespertine as Matutine. 1819J. Wilson Dict. Astrol. 288 Vespertine planets, viz. those between the 10th and 7th, or on the cusp of the 4th or near it, or ☿ and {female} rising vespertine by day.
3. Geol. Used to designate the lowest carboniferous formation of the Pennsylvanian coal-measures.
1858H. D. Rogers Geol. Pennsylv. II. 735 The..horizon which separates the Umbral red shale from the underlying Vespertine conglomerate. Ibid. 756 The Vespertine, or Lower Carboniferous series. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 258/1 In its Vespertine areas are numerous patches of anthracite and semi-anthracite coals.
†4. As n. Vespers, evensong. In quot. fig. Obs.
a1635Randolph Hey for Honesty v. Wks. (1875) 489 Their breakfasts are their matins holy zelibus, Their vespertines are eating beef and velibus. |