latituden.

Brit.

/ˈlatᵻtjuːd/,

/ˈlatᵻtʃuːd/, U.S.

/ˈlædəˌt(j)ud/

Etymology: < Latin lātitūd-o, < lātus broad, wide: see -tude suffix. Compare French latitude.

I. Breadth, width.

a. Transverse dimension; extent as measured from side to side; breadth, width of a surface, as opposed to length; also occasionally spaciousness. Now only jocular.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > breadth or width > [noun]

bredeeOE

widenessOE

wideOE

latitude1398

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broadnessa1425

largeness?a1425

breadth1459

width1570

largitude1590

cross1630

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent

widenessc1225

largenessa1400

ampleness1509

breadth1532

spaciousness1587

vastness1602

vastity1603

vastiditya1616

spaciosity1620

vastitude1623

latitude1650

immensity1797

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. xxiv. 335 Orion..his lengthe and longitude stretchyth nyghe to the brede and latitude of thre sygnes.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §39. 48 Þe latitude of a climat is a lyne ymagined from north to south þe space of the erthe, fro the byginnyng of the firste clymat vnto the verrey ende of the [same] climat.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxvi Twenty pase was the latytude.

1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy ii. xi, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 137 Altytude, Latytude, and Profundyte.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 25 The latitude and bredth of the Zodiack is .xij. degrees.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxv. sig. Giv^v The square of y^e ditches latitude.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 2 The Gulph of Venice..being seuen hundred miles in length, and seuen score in latitude.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 364 The great latitude and capacity of the Temple consisted in the outward Courts.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 64 Though his [sc. man's] Feet, the Basis of the Pillar of his Body, be much narrower than the latitude of his Body.

1692–4 R. L'Estrange Fables (1708) ccclvii. 375 'Tis a Field of a Huge Latitude that the Devil has to Dance..in.

1713 A. Pope Narr. Frenzy of John Denn 8 The Latitude of whose Countenance was not a little eclips'd by the Fullness of his Peruke.

1739 R. Neve Builder's Dict. (ed. 3) at Building The Longitude, Latitude and Crassitude of Ground-plates.

1830 T. Hamilton Cyril Thornton (1845) 99 His beaver was..distinguished by an unusual latitude of brim.

†b. A tract or area as defined by its breadth; a wide compass or extent. Obsolete.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent > that which is

latitude?a1475

sea1585

ocean1590

vasture1596

vast1604

vastity1652

vastness1674

immense1791

breadths1839

vastitude1841

Atlantic1865

wide1916

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 81 Mony multitudes of peple may sytte vnder the latitude of oon figge tre.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I1^v Fruitfull showers..serue but for that season, and for a latitude of ground where they falle.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. iii. 95 A chace with a vengeance all the latitude of the land, the Canaanites flying as far as sea or mountains would give them leave.

1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 70 What a vast distance is there betwixt the East and West? of all visible latitudes, this is the greatest.

a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 410 Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs.

a. Extent, range, scope. Also, great or full extent. Now rare.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > scope or range of

ampleness1509

reach1546

compass1555

zodiac1560

extent1593

range1599

verge1599

extension1604

latitude1605

extendure1610

point-blanka1616

comprisement1640

comprisurea1641

virge1640

tour1699

purview1751

gamut1753

sweep1781

diapason1851

carry1859

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Fff3 It is a thing of great vse well to define, what, and of what latitude those points are.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 93 Even those Barbarous People, have the Notion, though they have not the Latitude, and Extent of it.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 33 For his great learning and latitude of knowledge sirnamed Magnus.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 82 Grant this Miracle of Oswald's Hand literally true in the Latitude thereof.

1655 C. Sympson in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 15 They have..assumed the nature of some part for a Note or two, and so want the full latitude of a Base in those Notes.

a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 160 The Greek word in the latitude of its signification..comprehendeth all these senses.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 126 To compass and comprehend the whole Latitude of Learning.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 105. ⁋1 The latitude to which this design may be extended.

1776 R. King Life & Corr. (1894) I. 22 Had the scheme been executed with success, in its greatest latitude.

1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod i. i. 16 If this record be taken in its full latitude.

1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica i. 36 The often-quoted passage of Locke..when understood in its proper latitude.

†b. The range within which anything may vary.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > limit > limit of permitted variation

latitude1541

tolerance limit1931

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 52 a Meate but a lyttel excedynge temperance..may yet kepe the body within the latitude or boundes of helthe.

1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iv. xxii. 243 I Find my self in the Latitude of a Feaver: I am neither well, nor ill.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 110 Our love to God consists not in any one determinate degree, but hath such a latitude, as best agrees with the condition of men.

1738 tr. J. Keill in Ess. Animal Oecon. (ed. 4) 247 The Latitude of a natural Perspiration is from about a Pound and half to three Pound.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 160 Few stones admit of a greater latitude of composition.

†c. Local range; wide diffusion or prevalence.

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the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun] > condition of being > widely, of something immaterial

latitude1612

diffusednessa1626

diffusivenessa1631

spread1644

extensiveness1656

worldwideness1890

globality1931

1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 236 The execution of al these Lawes, had no greater Latitude then the Pale.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vi. §42. 363 If you should contend for latitude with any one Religion, Mahumetisme would carry the victory from you.

d. Photography. The range of exposures for which an emulsion, printing paper, etc., will give acceptable contrast; spec. the ratio (or its logarithm) of the exposures between which the characteristic curve is straight.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > technical factors > [noun] > filter factor or scale of exposure

exposure1839

time exposure1870

inertiac1886

latitude1889

factor1900

filter factor1904

inertia point1907

intermittency effect1907

Scheiner number1911

scale1920

1889 E. J. Wall Dict. Photogr. 98 The extreme latitude of exposure which most plates possess.

1907 S. E. Sheppard & C. E. K. Mees Investigations Theory Photogr. Process iii. i. 289 The latitude may be defined as the ratio of the exposure at which over-exposure commences to that at which under-exposure commences, and these two points must be arbitrarily defined.

1939 W. Clark Photogr. by Infrared iv. 60 The range or latitude of printing papers is thus always less than that of negative materials.

1962 W. G. Hyzer Engin. & Sci. High-speed Photogr. v. 200 Actually the toe region of the curve is usable in recording shadow detail, which somewhat increases the effective latitude of the emulsion.

a. Freedom from narrow restrictions; width or liberality of construction or interpretation; tolerated or permitted variety of action or opinion.

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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun]

freedomOE

freenesslOE

libertya1393

licence?a1400

wilfulnessc1460

immunity1549

latitude1605

voluntariness1612

liberum arbitrium1642

free agencya1646

libertinism1649

unrestrainedness1698

unrestraint1755

relaxity1759

head1804

laissez-aller1818

unrestrictedness1825

uninhibitedness1947

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Dd4 Allowing..that Latitude, which is agreeable, and familiar vnto diuine Prophecies, being of the nature of their Author, with whom a thousande yeares are but as one day.

1642 King Charles I in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 595 The Latitude they allow us of granting or denying of Pardons.

1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη xiv. 115 In such latitudes of sens, I believ manie that love Mee and the Church well, may have taken the Covenant, who [etc.].

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 246 A greater latitude there must be left in doctrinals then practicals.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 72 Christ went down to Hell (to preach to the Spirits there,) which last clause is left out in these Articles, and men left to a latitude concerning the cause, time, and manner of his Descent.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 82 Your sons of Latitude that court your grace. [Cf. iii. 84 Your sons of breadth.]

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 78 A latitude of Judgement no Court can challenge to it self in any Cases.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 44. ¶8 There is a much greater Latitude for comick than tragick Artifices.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. ii. 30 The Devil..has some little latitudes and advantages for mischief.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. ix. 265 He gave a Latitude to his Friend's Tongue, and desired him to speak plainly what he knew.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xvi. 105 A latitude to kill might subject the innocent to great inconveniencies.

1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. x. 68 The greatest ease and latitude allowed in behaviour and dress.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. iv. 316 Natural good is defined by Cumberland with more latitude than has been used by Paley.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law ii. 7 The latitude which a court of equity allows itself in enforcing agreements against the letter.

1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xi. 143 In regard to time the Emperor grants you no latitude.

1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iv. 325 Courayer's ‘Last Sentiments’, which were of the extremest latitude in theology.

†b. Laxity of conduct or principle. Obsolete.

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1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. i. 127 They live with that latitude and licentiousness, as if there were neither God, nor Justice for them.

1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants (1692) i. iii. 7 Which way soever this ungodly Latitude came in.

1702 Eng. Theophrastus 237 If statesmen..worked their heads, there would be no occasion for Latitude and insincerity.

c. attributive† latitude man n. Obsolete = latitudinarian adj. and n.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Low Church > [noun] > person

Protestant1583

latitude man1662

latitudinarian1662

Low Churchman1698

low-flyer?1704

lowboy1707

Simeonite1795

Hoadlyite1800

evangelical1804

evangelic1812

peculiar1834

Sim1836

Recordite1844

evangelican1876

Kensitite1898

1662 S. Patrick (title) Brief Account of the new Sect of Latitude-men.

1662 S. Patrick Brief Acct. Latitude-men 5 In opposition to that hide-bound, strait-lac'd spirit that did then prevail, they were called Latitude-men.

II. In Geography and Astronomy.

4. Geography.

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a. Angular distance on a meridian: only in degree, minute, etc. of latitude.

b. The angular distance on its meridian (of any place on the earth's surface) north or south from the equator; quantitatively identical with the elevation of the pole above the horizon, and with the declination of the zenith.For circle, parallel of latitude, see those words. [In their original geographical use latitude (Latin latitudo, Greek πλάτος) and longitude (Latin longitudo, Greek μῆκος) meant quite literally the ‘breadth’ and ‘length’ of the oblong map of the known world; this literal sense remained even in the expression ‘degrees of latitude and longitude’ (μοῖραι πλάτους και μήκους). By a natural development the terms afterwards came (in late Latin, apparently not yet in Greek) to denote the distance of any place, in the breadthwise and lengthwise direction respectively, from the circle assumed as the origin of measurement.]

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the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > latitude > of a place

latitudec1400

the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > latitude

parallela1544

sublevation1556

height1585

latitude1622

degree1647

elevation1686

geographical latitude1712

geographic latitude1750

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §22. 32 The latitude of any place in a regioun is the d[i]stance fro the senyth vnto the Equinoxial.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 1 A suffisaunt astralabie as for owre orizonte, compowned after the latitude of Oxenford.

a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. C This latitude is the measure of the worlde from North to South.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 123 Ther shalbe so many, as there are paralleles of latitude, whose nombre as I saide was .90.

1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 8^v Howe coulde yee knowe towards what Coastes yee bee sea dryuen without knowledge of the latitude of the place by the Poole and y^e length by other starres.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 8 To fortie three Degrees of North'ly Latitude.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. iv. 157 How to correct the Account, when the Dead Latitude differs from the Observed Latitude..if the Difference of Latitude be less by Estimation than it is by Observation [etc.].

1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 107 The Latitude of Paris being 48°· 45'.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Whenever a Ship sails to or from the Equinoctial on either side, her way thus gain'd is call'd her Difference of Latitude.

1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xii. 244 We have made a famous run. It's twelve o'clock, and if you please I'll work the latitude.

1867 E. B. Denison Astron. without Math. (ed. 3) 9 A degree of latitude measured on any meridian is about 69 miles everywhere.

c. A locality as marked or defined by parallels of latitude; usually in plural = regions, climes, parts of the world. Also figurative.

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the world > the earth > region of the earth > [noun]

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earthOE

coastc1315

plagea1382

provincea1382

regiona1382

countrya1387

partya1387

climatea1398

partc1400

nookc1450

corner1535

subregion1559

parcel1582

quart1590

climature1604

latitudea1640

area1671

district1712

zone1829

natural region1888

sector1943

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. ii. 48 They serve For any latitude in Christendome.

1704 London Gaz. No. 3988/1 A French Privateer..which he took in this Latitude.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 101 I was something chilly, which I knew was not usual in that Latitude.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 197 A Lady's whole cargo of smiles, sighs and whispers, is declared utterly contraband, till she arrives in the warm latitudes of twenty-two.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 59 Very little meat and wine are necessary in these hot latitudes.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. v. 144 The flag of Castile was seen in the remotest latitudes,—on the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the far-off Indian seas.

1870 Fortn. Rev. July 157 Men who have long since moved far away from these spiritual latitudes.

1882 W. R. Greg Misc. Ess. 1st Ser. v. 103 Those latitudes and altitudes where no crops will grow.

1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory I. 115 Leaving blank vast latitudes on the map of human thought.

5. Astronomy. The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic: called spec. celestial latitude. (See also ascending n., geocentric adj. 1, heliocentric adj. 1, and heliographic adj. 1)The history of this sense appears to be as follows. Originally the word was applied, on the analogy of the geographical use (see 4) to denote the angular distance of a point in the celestial sphere from the equator, measured along a secondary to the latter. This, however, was not accurately distinguished by name from the distance of a point from the ecliptic, the terms ‘latitude’ and ‘declination’ being employed indiscriminately with reference to both these ways of indicating position. (Cf. quot. c1400.) In modern use, the terms have been differentiated, declination being appropriated to what was originally and with historical propriety called ‘latitude’, while latitude became the name for distance from the ecliptic.

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the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > latitude

latitudec1400

degree1647

co-latitude1790

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §17. 28 Fro [the] Equinoxial may the declinacion or the latitude of any body celestial be rikned, after the site north or south,..& riht so may the latitude or the declinacion of any body celestial, saue only of the sonne..be rekned fro the Ecliptic lyne.

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 176 Proprelye they doo call that the Latitude of the Planetes, when they swarue from the Ecliptike line.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xi. f. 143^v The Latitude is counted from the said Ecliptique line towards any of the Poles of the Zodiaque.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 11 Mars in his latitude leaueth the eclipticke line foure halfe degrees.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Apparent Latitude, is the Distance of the apparent, or seeming Place of any Planet from the Ecliptick; and True Latitude is the Distance of its real Place from the same Ecliptick.

1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §555. 269 The right ascension and declination are then easily converted by calculation into celestial longitiude and latitude if required.

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单词	latitude
释义	latituden. Brit. /ˈlatᵻtjuːd/, /ˈlatᵻtʃuːd/, U.S. /ˈlædəˌt(j)ud/ Etymology: < Latin lātitūd-o, < lātus broad, wide: see -tude suffix. Compare French latitude. I. Breadth, width. 1. a. Transverse dimension; extent as measured from side to side; breadth, width of a surface, as opposed to length; also occasionally spaciousness. Now only jocular. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > breadth or width > [noun] bredeeOE widenessOE wideOE latitude1398 broada1400 broadnessa1425 largeness?a1425 breadth1459 width1570 largitude1590 cross1630 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent widenessc1225 largenessa1400 ampleness1509 breadth1532 spaciousness1587 vastness1602 vastity1603 vastiditya1616 spaciosity1620 vastitude1623 latitude1650 immensity1797 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. xxiv. 335 Orion..his lengthe and longitude stretchyth nyghe to the brede and latitude of thre sygnes. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §39. 48 Þe latitude of a climat is a lyne ymagined from north to south þe space of the erthe, fro the byginnyng of the firste clymat vnto the verrey ende of the [same] climat. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxvi Twenty pase was the latytude. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy ii. xi, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 137 Altytude, Latytude, and Profundyte. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 25 The latitude and bredth of the Zodiack is .xij. degrees. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxv. sig. Giv^v The square of y^e ditches latitude. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 2 The Gulph of Venice..being seuen hundred miles in length, and seuen score in latitude. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 364 The great latitude and capacity of the Temple consisted in the outward Courts. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 64 Though his [sc. man's] Feet, the Basis of the Pillar of his Body, be much narrower than the latitude of his Body. 1692–4 R. L'Estrange Fables (1708) ccclvii. 375 'Tis a Field of a Huge Latitude that the Devil has to Dance..in. 1713 A. Pope Narr. Frenzy of John Denn 8 The Latitude of whose Countenance was not a little eclips'd by the Fullness of his Peruke. 1739 R. Neve Builder's Dict. (ed. 3) at Building The Longitude, Latitude and Crassitude of Ground-plates. 1830 T. Hamilton Cyril Thornton (1845) 99 His beaver was..distinguished by an unusual latitude of brim. †b. A tract or area as defined by its breadth; a wide compass or extent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent > that which is latitude?a1475 sea1585 ocean1590 vasture1596 vast1604 vastity1652 vastness1674 immense1791 breadths1839 vastitude1841 Atlantic1865 wide1916 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 81 Mony multitudes of peple may sytte vnder the latitude of oon figge tre. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I1^v Fruitfull showers..serue but for that season, and for a latitude of ground where they falle. View more context for this quotation 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. iii. 95 A chace with a vengeance all the latitude of the land, the Canaanites flying as far as sea or mountains would give them leave. 1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 70 What a vast distance is there betwixt the East and West? of all visible latitudes, this is the greatest. a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 410 Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs. 2. a. Extent, range, scope. Also, great or full extent. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > scope or range of ampleness1509 reach1546 compass1555 zodiac1560 extent1593 range1599 verge1599 extension1604 latitude1605 extendure1610 point-blanka1616 comprisement1640 comprisurea1641 virge1640 tour1699 purview1751 gamut1753 sweep1781 diapason1851 carry1859 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Fff3 It is a thing of great vse well to define, what, and of what latitude those points are. View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 93 Even those Barbarous People, have the Notion, though they have not the Latitude, and Extent of it. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 33 For his great learning and latitude of knowledge sirnamed Magnus. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 82 Grant this Miracle of Oswald's Hand literally true in the Latitude thereof. 1655 C. Sympson in J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick ii. 15 They have..assumed the nature of some part for a Note or two, and so want the full latitude of a Base in those Notes. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 160 The Greek word in the latitude of its signification..comprehendeth all these senses. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 126 To compass and comprehend the whole Latitude of Learning. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 105. ⁋1 The latitude to which this design may be extended. 1776 R. King Life & Corr. (1894) I. 22 Had the scheme been executed with success, in its greatest latitude. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod i. i. 16 If this record be taken in its full latitude. 1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica i. 36 The often-quoted passage of Locke..when understood in its proper latitude. †b. The range within which anything may vary. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > limit > limit of permitted variation latitude1541 tolerance limit1931 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 52 a Meate but a lyttel excedynge temperance..may yet kepe the body within the latitude or boundes of helthe. 1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iv. xxii. 243 I Find my self in the Latitude of a Feaver: I am neither well, nor ill. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 110 Our love to God consists not in any one determinate degree, but hath such a latitude, as best agrees with the condition of men. 1738 tr. J. Keill in Ess. Animal Oecon. (ed. 4) 247 The Latitude of a natural Perspiration is from about a Pound and half to three Pound. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 160 Few stones admit of a greater latitude of composition. †c. Local range; wide diffusion or prevalence. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun] > condition of being > widely, of something immaterial latitude1612 diffusednessa1626 diffusivenessa1631 spread1644 extensiveness1656 worldwideness1890 globality1931 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 236 The execution of al these Lawes, had no greater Latitude then the Pale. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vi. §42. 363 If you should contend for latitude with any one Religion, Mahumetisme would carry the victory from you. d. Photography. The range of exposures for which an emulsion, printing paper, etc., will give acceptable contrast; spec. the ratio (or its logarithm) of the exposures between which the characteristic curve is straight. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > technical factors > [noun] > filter factor or scale of exposure exposure1839 time exposure1870 inertiac1886 latitude1889 factor1900 filter factor1904 inertia point1907 intermittency effect1907 Scheiner number1911 scale1920 1889 E. J. Wall Dict. Photogr. 98 The extreme latitude of exposure which most plates possess. 1907 S. E. Sheppard & C. E. K. Mees Investigations Theory Photogr. Process iii. i. 289 The latitude may be defined as the ratio of the exposure at which over-exposure commences to that at which under-exposure commences, and these two points must be arbitrarily defined. 1939 W. Clark Photogr. by Infrared iv. 60 The range or latitude of printing papers is thus always less than that of negative materials. 1962 W. G. Hyzer Engin. & Sci. High-speed Photogr. v. 200 Actually the toe region of the curve is usable in recording shadow detail, which somewhat increases the effective latitude of the emulsion. 3. a. Freedom from narrow restrictions; width or liberality of construction or interpretation; tolerated or permitted variety of action or opinion. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] freedomOE freenesslOE libertya1393 licence?a1400 wilfulnessc1460 immunity1549 latitude1605 voluntariness1612 liberum arbitrium1642 free agencya1646 libertinism1649 unrestrainedness1698 unrestraint1755 relaxity1759 head1804 laissez-aller1818 unrestrictedness1825 uninhibitedness1947 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Dd4 Allowing..that Latitude, which is agreeable, and familiar vnto diuine Prophecies, being of the nature of their Author, with whom a thousande yeares are but as one day. View more context for this quotation 1642 King Charles I in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 595 The Latitude they allow us of granting or denying of Pardons. 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη xiv. 115 In such latitudes of sens, I believ manie that love Mee and the Church well, may have taken the Covenant, who [etc.]. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 246 A greater latitude there must be left in doctrinals then practicals. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 72 Christ went down to Hell (to preach to the Spirits there,) which last clause is left out in these Articles, and men left to a latitude concerning the cause, time, and manner of his Descent. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 82 Your sons of Latitude that court your grace. [Cf. iii. 84 Your sons of breadth.] 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 78 A latitude of Judgement no Court can challenge to it self in any Cases. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 44. ¶8 There is a much greater Latitude for comick than tragick Artifices. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. ii. 30 The Devil..has some little latitudes and advantages for mischief. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. ix. 265 He gave a Latitude to his Friend's Tongue, and desired him to speak plainly what he knew. View more context for this quotation 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xvi. 105 A latitude to kill might subject the innocent to great inconveniencies. 1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. x. 68 The greatest ease and latitude allowed in behaviour and dress. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. iv. 316 Natural good is defined by Cumberland with more latitude than has been used by Paley. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law ii. 7 The latitude which a court of equity allows itself in enforcing agreements against the letter. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xi. 143 In regard to time the Emperor grants you no latitude. 1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey iv. 325 Courayer's ‘Last Sentiments’, which were of the extremest latitude in theology. †b. Laxity of conduct or principle. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. i. 127 They live with that latitude and licentiousness, as if there were neither God, nor Justice for them. 1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants (1692) i. iii. 7 Which way soever this ungodly Latitude came in. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 237 If statesmen..worked their heads, there would be no occasion for Latitude and insincerity. c. attributive† latitude man n. Obsolete = latitudinarian adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Low Church > [noun] > person Protestant1583 latitude man1662 latitudinarian1662 Low Churchman1698 low-flyer?1704 lowboy1707 Simeonite1795 Hoadlyite1800 evangelical1804 evangelic1812 peculiar1834 Sim1836 Recordite1844 evangelican1876 Kensitite1898 1662 S. Patrick (title) Brief Account of the new Sect of Latitude-men. 1662 S. Patrick Brief Acct. Latitude-men 5 In opposition to that hide-bound, strait-lac'd spirit that did then prevail, they were called Latitude-men. II. In Geography and Astronomy. 4. Geography. Categories » a. Angular distance on a meridian: only in degree, minute, etc. of latitude. b. The angular distance on its meridian (of any place on the earth's surface) north or south from the equator; quantitatively identical with the elevation of the pole above the horizon, and with the declination of the zenith.For circle, parallel of latitude, see those words. [In their original geographical use latitude (Latin latitudo, Greek πλάτος) and longitude (Latin longitudo, Greek μῆκος) meant quite literally the ‘breadth’ and ‘length’ of the oblong map of the known world; this literal sense remained even in the expression ‘degrees of latitude and longitude’ (μοῖραι πλάτους και μήκους). By a natural development the terms afterwards came (in late Latin, apparently not yet in Greek) to denote the distance of any place, in the breadthwise and lengthwise direction respectively, from the circle assumed as the origin of measurement.] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > latitude > of a place latitudec1400 the world > the earth > geodetic references > [noun] > latitude parallela1544 sublevation1556 height1585 latitude1622 degree1647 elevation1686 geographical latitude1712 geographic latitude1750 c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §22. 32 The latitude of any place in a regioun is the d[i]stance fro the senyth vnto the Equinoxial. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 1 A suffisaunt astralabie as for owre orizonte, compowned after the latitude of Oxenford. a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. C This latitude is the measure of the worlde from North to South. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 123 Ther shalbe so many, as there are paralleles of latitude, whose nombre as I saide was .90. 1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 8^v Howe coulde yee knowe towards what Coastes yee bee sea dryuen without knowledge of the latitude of the place by the Poole and y^e length by other starres. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 8 To fortie three Degrees of North'ly Latitude. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. iv. 157 How to correct the Account, when the Dead Latitude differs from the Observed Latitude..if the Difference of Latitude be less by Estimation than it is by Observation [etc.]. 1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 107 The Latitude of Paris being 48°· 45'. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Whenever a Ship sails to or from the Equinoctial on either side, her way thus gain'd is call'd her Difference of Latitude. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xii. 244 We have made a famous run. It's twelve o'clock, and if you please I'll work the latitude. 1867 E. B. Denison Astron. without Math. (ed. 3) 9 A degree of latitude measured on any meridian is about 69 miles everywhere. c. A locality as marked or defined by parallels of latitude; usually in plural = regions, climes, parts of the world. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > [noun] endc893 earthOE coastc1315 plagea1382 provincea1382 regiona1382 countrya1387 partya1387 climatea1398 partc1400 nookc1450 corner1535 subregion1559 parcel1582 quart1590 climature1604 latitudea1640 area1671 district1712 zone1829 natural region1888 sector1943 a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. ii. 48 They serve For any latitude in Christendome. 1704 London Gaz. No. 3988/1 A French Privateer..which he took in this Latitude. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 101 I was something chilly, which I knew was not usual in that Latitude. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 197 A Lady's whole cargo of smiles, sighs and whispers, is declared utterly contraband, till she arrives in the warm latitudes of twenty-two. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 59 Very little meat and wine are necessary in these hot latitudes. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. v. 144 The flag of Castile was seen in the remotest latitudes,—on the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the far-off Indian seas. 1870 Fortn. Rev. July 157 Men who have long since moved far away from these spiritual latitudes. 1882 W. R. Greg Misc. Ess. 1st Ser. v. 103 Those latitudes and altitudes where no crops will grow. 1885 J. Martineau Types Ethical Theory I. 115 Leaving blank vast latitudes on the map of human thought. 5. Astronomy. The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic: called spec. celestial latitude. (See also ascending n., geocentric adj. 1, heliocentric adj. 1, and heliographic adj. 1)The history of this sense appears to be as follows. Originally the word was applied, on the analogy of the geographical use (see 4) to denote the angular distance of a point in the celestial sphere from the equator, measured along a secondary to the latter. This, however, was not accurately distinguished by name from the distance of a point from the ecliptic, the terms ‘latitude’ and ‘declination’ being employed indiscriminately with reference to both these ways of indicating position. (Cf. quot. c1400.) In modern use, the terms have been differentiated, declination being appropriated to what was originally and with historical propriety called ‘latitude’, while latitude became the name for distance from the ecliptic. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > latitude latitudec1400 degree1647 co-latitude1790 c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §17. 28 Fro [the] Equinoxial may the declinacion or the latitude of any body celestial be rikned, after the site north or south,..& riht so may the latitude or the declinacion of any body celestial, saue only of the sonne..be rekned fro the Ecliptic lyne. 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 176 Proprelye they doo call that the Latitude of the Planetes, when they swarue from the Ecliptike line. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xi. f. 143^v The Latitude is counted from the said Ecliptique line towards any of the Poles of the Zodiaque. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 11 Mars in his latitude leaueth the eclipticke line foure halfe degrees. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) Apparent Latitude, is the Distance of the apparent, or seeming Place of any Planet from the Ecliptick; and True Latitude is the Distance of its real Place from the same Ecliptick. 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §555. 269 The right ascension and declination are then easily converted by calculation into celestial longitiude and latitude if required. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1398
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