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solstitial en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /sɒlˈstɪʃ.əl/
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Etymology

From Latin sōlstitiālis.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to a solstice.
   • Gaillard had tried to show that the avenues had a solstitial orientation. 2000, Peter Lancaster Brown, Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology, page 214:
   • In the Assyrian Standard [...] we see the figure of an Archer above that of a galloping Bull, and in another Assyrian Standard, that of Sargon II., we find not only the Archer and the Bull, the two constellations which 4,000 b.c. marked the equinoctial colure, but we may also clearly trace a reference to the two constellations which at the same date marked the solstitial colure, namely, those of the Lion and the Water-man. 1903, Emmeline M. Plunket, Ancient Calendars and Constellations, London: John Murray, page 44:
   • a solstitial point
   • […] Fig. 2 is taken as being in the solstitial meridian plane N W S E, with the node D in front at the centre of the figure, and the node V behind the figure, D C V being the nodal diameter of the Earth, and W C E a solstitial diameter rectangular to D C V. 1903, John Jones, A kinetic universe, page 51:
2. (not-comparable) Occurring on a solstice.
   • These two stages of the descriptive and the solstitial moon series were long ago passed through in southern Mexico and a need felt for a more precise time reckoning. 1923, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Anthropology, page 376:
   • […] the moment of his birth, the solstitial moon is to be full, […] 1827, “The Correspondent”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, page 182:
   • The elaborate and costly provision for witnessing the solstitial event alone confirms this. Something in addition was done here, on behalf of the immaterial fraction of personhood that can be imagined to survive the death of the body[…] 2006, Jacqueline Ingalls Garnett, Newgrange Speaks for Itself: Forty Carved Motifs, page 18:
   • The same solstitial event occurs for the dry season, when Paritzika gains sight from the sun ray that filters through the nierika in the center of his tepari. The daily path of the sun is also charted inside the temple. 1996, Stacy B. Schaefer, Peter T. Furst, People of the peyote: Huichol Indian history, religion, & survival, page 357:

Forms

Deriveds

solstitial colure · solstitially

Translations (12)

de Sonnwend- (occurring on a solstice) · sv solstånds- (pertaining to a solstice) · la sōlstitiālis (pertaining to a solstice) · la sōlstitiālis (occurring on a solstice) · fi päivänseisauksen aikainen (occurring on a solstice) · sv solstitial- (pertaining to a solstice) · de Sonnenwend- (occurring on a solstice) · fi päivänseisaus- (pertaining to a solstice) · fr solsticial (pertaining to a solstice) · sv solstånds- (occurring on a solstice) · de Sonnenwend- (pertaining to a solstice) · de Sonnwend- (pertaining to a solstice)