Equinoctial

The equator is the line C, D, which upon the globe is a circle, and is sometimes called the equinoctial: Upon this circle the degrees of longitude are reckoned, beginning at C, and counting all round the globe till you come to C again; and O is the middle of the world between A and B, which are the two poles thereof: A representing the ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The two first stars named are exactly on what is called the equinoctial line. ❋ Roger Thompson Finlay (N/A)

As one half of the ecliptic is north, and the other half south, of the equator, the line of intersection of their planes is at two points which are known as the equinoctial points, because, when the Sun on his upward and downward journey arrives at either of them the days and nights are of equal length all over the world. ❋ Thomas Nathaniel Orchard (N/A)

If we suppose the south pole to be the centre of a chart of which the equinoctial is the circumference, we shall then discern four quarters, of the contents of which, if we could give a full account, this part of the world would be perfectly discovered. ❋ John Pinkerton (1792)

During colonial times, the proximity of many of these storms to the autumnal equinox led early Americans to call them "equinoctial" storms or "line" storms, thought to be a reference to the tropic of cancer, the imaginary "line" near the hurricane breeding zone that encircles the world at approximately 23 ½ degrees N. latitude (it slowly changes position over time). ❋ Don Lipman (2010)

This was the beginning of a long and dreary autumnal storm, a deferred "equinoctial," as many considered it. ❋ Various (N/A)

This discouraging condition of affairs sorely afflicted her, and produced a kind of equinoctial agitation in the Hollis kitchen. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)

This was probably the "equinoctial," and when it was over there would be a delightful Indian summer, and the turnips would grow nicely. ❋ Frank Richard Stockton (1868)

] [Footnote 410: See the article "Horologium" in _Dict. of Antiquities_, vol. i.] [Footnote 411: Our modern hours are called equinoctial, because they are fixed at the length of the natural hour at the equinoxes. ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

Soon after I started celebrating the seasons in the city on the Winter Solstice of 1975, a friend returned from Asia with an odd bit of equinoctial information for my interest. ❋ Donna Henes (2011)

It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Very long and very severe were the equinoctial gales that year. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From a private collection, offerings include several important pairs of globes by Newton, a sextant by Ramsden, an octant by George Jones, equinoctial dials, astrolabes, chronometers, microscopes and nautical antiques. ❋ Unknown (2009)

March is also a time of high winds, or as our diarist says It is also the time of equinoctial gales both at sea and land. ❋ Ann Lethbridge (2009)

On the western coast, the tidal range may reach up to 4 meters (m) during the equinoctial periods, compared with 0.75 m on the east coast. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the Orion had run back to Toulon. ❋ Unknown (2008)