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Middle English
Noun
almicanteras
- almucantar
,
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes , published
1542,
→OCLC,
folio ccxciii, verso:
VPon thys forſayde plate ben compaſed certayne cercles, that hyghten almicanteras : of whyche ſome of hem ſemen parfyte cercles, and ſome ſemen imparfyte.- Upon this aforementioned plate are compassed certain circles that are called almucantars, of which some seem like perfect circles and some seem imperfect.]