Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word achronical.
Examples
-
He must mean either the heliacal or achronical rising of that sign.
Dedication Vergil 1909
-
If therefore Ilioneus, according to our supposition, understand the heliacal rising of Orion, Anna must mean the achronical, which the different epithets given to that constellation seem to manifest.
Dedication Vergil 1909
-
The achronical rising, on the contrary, is when it appears at the close of day, and in opposition of the suns diurnal course.
Dedication Vergil 1909
-
In that connection there are three kinds of them, cosmical, achronical, and heliacal, important to be distinguished by all who would understand this ancient learning.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
-
And, on the very morning after the achronical departure of the last star of the Husbandman, Aldebaran rose heliacally, and became visible in the
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
-
Sabæsan astronomers by their observations of the stars, and of their heliacal and achronical risings and settings.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.