What is more: the re-appearance of the sun, after the long darkness of a northern winter, must have established the idea of a fixed relationship between certain positions of Ursa Major and the solstitial position of the sun.
The tables exhibit four composite groups representing the positions at the solstitial and equinoctial periods (fig.
II), had expressed his view that this symbol was an actual figurative representation of the annual apparent movements of the sun, and recorded its positions at the solstitial and equinoctial periods.
This statement is of extreme importance as it proves an orientation of the north by the pole-star and not by the solstitial position of the sun.
Where the ecliptic crosses the solstitial colure is the spot where the sun appears to be when it is farthest north of the equator, June 21st.
Note the star μ, which serves to point out the Winter Solstice, where the solstitial colure intersects the ecliptic.
These movable circles consist of an equatorial circle, a double ring ecliptic, an equinoctial colure, and a double ring solstitial colure.
On the surface of the sphere the equator, the ecliptic, the equinoctial, and the solstitial colures are represented.
That great circle which passes through the equinoctial points and the poles of the earth, is called the equinoctial colure; and that which passes through the solstitial points and the poles of the earth, the solstitial colure.
A great circle passing through the poles and solstitial points.
The equinoctial and solstitial points; namely, the commencement of Aries and Libra, and of Cancer and Capricornus.
Great circles passing through the equinoctial and solstitial points, and the poles of the earth.
The two points of the ecliptic, which are each 90° distant from the equinoctial points, are called the solstitial points.
One of these circles, passing through the first point of Aries and Libra in the ecliptic, is called equinoctial colure: the other circle, passing consequently between the first point of Cancer and Capricorn, is called solstitial colure.
Everywhere, even in our Order, survive the equinoctial and solstitial feasts.
He then completed his triumph, mounted on an ass, in the constellation Cancer, which then occupied the Solstitial point of Summer.
Osiris resurrected when the Solstitial Sun brings the inundation, 589-m.
From that death he rises when the Solstitial Sun brings the inundation, and Egypt is filled with mirth and acclamation anticipatory of the second harvest.
Scorpio: red Antares, one of the Stars marking Solstitial points, etc, 456-u.
Summer is approaching, sir, and apart from certain unpleasant risks which I need not specify, you will surely agree with me that the solstitial heat is a needlessly severe trial for a boy with long hair.
Altogether, these Normans, dreaming through the solstitial heats in pleasaunces like Ravello, developed a nice taste in the matter of marbles, and were not particular where they came from, so long as they came from somewhere.
December, when the sun has risen one degree above the solstitial point: which answers to a moment to the births of the Egyptian Osiris, the Grecian Bacchus, and the Mithra of the Persians.
To these were added the festivals of the solstitial invaders, Beltane at midsummer and Yule at midwinter; the movable festival of Easter was also added, but the equinoxes were never observed in Britain.
The dates of the two chief festivals, May Eve and November Eve, indicate the use of a calendar which is generally acknowledged to be pre-agricultural and earlier than the solstitial division of the year.
The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21.
But when it faces I directly, then the maximum obliquity G is observed at the solstitial colure; but when it faces L, there is the minimum obliquity H at the solstitial colure.
Primitive mathematicians, since they did not pay attention to the inequaelities of the years, made no distinction between the aequinoctial, or solstitial revolving year, and that which is taken from some one of the fixed stars.
Some of its theories squarely betray their indebtedness to Greek science, as, for instance, that of the displacement of the equinoctial and solstitial points by a periodical vibration or tremor.
Elaborate solstitial ceremonies are practiced by the North American Pueblos.
They are said to represent St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist; but they really refer to the solstitial points Cancer and Capricorn, in the zodiac.
The solstitial colure is the meridian which passes through the solstitial points.
Thus, when the equinoxes are in the horizon, the ecliptic makes a very small angle with the horizon; whereas, when the solstitial points are in the horizon, the same angle is far greater.
The solstitial points are the two points of the ecliptic most distant from the equator.
The only fixed point from which he starts in his chronological arrangement is the date implied by the position of the solstitial points mentioned in a little treatise, the Gyotisha, a date which has been accurately fixed by the Rev.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solstitial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arctic; autumn; boreal; canicular; seasonal; spring; summer; summery; vernal; winter; wintry
