单词 | antoecian |
释义 | antoeciann.adj. A. n. A person living at the same meridian as another or oneself, on the opposite side of the equator and at the same distance from it. Also with of, †to. Usually in plural: = antoeci n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > of earth > of same parallel or meridian antoeci1568 antoecian1594 perioecus1594 antiscian1842 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course i. f. 9v Againe, the inhabitants of the earth compared one to the other, are called Periecians, Antecians [Fr. Anteciens], and Antipodes. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. i. 214 'Tis evident an Inhabitant of the Equator, is an Antœcian [L. Antœcum] to himself. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 121/1 Antecians or Antœci..have their noon, or midnight, or any other hour at the same time; but their seasons are contrary, being spring to the one, when it is autumn with the other. 1834 G. N. Wright New & Comprehensive Gazetteer I. p. xxx Bring the given place to the brass meridian, and note its latitude;..the same latitude counted towards the contrary pole..will shew the place of the Antoecians. 1861 Jrnl. Royal Dublin Soc. Jan. 118 What these Antoecians of the Esquimaux are like, it is vain to conjecture. 1877 Colonies & India 7 Apr. 7/2 At present our emigrating classes will do well to grasp the hands of those antecians of their own blood and race which are so cordially held out to them. 1921 E. L. Stevenson Terrestr. & Celestial Globes I. 8 On the one hemisphere..lies our own oecumene or habitable world, and that of the Antoecians in corresponding longitude and in opposite latitude. 1997 Jrnl. World Hist. 8 9 The veritable opening up of the world to general accessibility would raise for a still Christian civilization the issue of rapid evangelization and universal redemption of all antipodeans, antoecians, and whatever else. Of or belonging to the same meridian on the opposite side of the equator and at the same distance from it. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [adjective] > latitude antoecian1693 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. iii. li. 417 The Periaecian People, and Antoecian, Amphiscian, Heteroscian, and Periscian had oft tendred and received mutual Visits to, and from other, upon all the Climates. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xx. §818 The westerly winds which prevail on the polar side of 40° S. are stronger and more constant than their antœcian fellows of the north. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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