| 单词 | canicular year |
| 释义 | > as lemmascanicular year 3. canicular cycle or canicular period: the ancient Egyptian cycle of 1461 years of 365 days each, or 1460 Julian years, also called the Sothic or Sothiac period; in which time (as was supposed) any given day of the year of 365 days would have passed successively through all the seasons of the natural year (taken as = 365¼ days). canicular year: the ancient Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of Sirius to the next. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > cycle of the year > [noun] > specific cycles cynic year or period1607 Callippic1657 canicular period1662 1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. i. 3 A canicular Cycle which consists of 1461 years (and are 1460 natural years). 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. vi. §1. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 122 This period of 1461 years is called the Sothic Period, from Sothis, the name of the dog-star, by which their fixed year was determined; and for the same reason it is called the Canicular period. < as lemmas |
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