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English
Noun
equinoctial line (plural equinoctial lines)
- (obsolete) celestial equator
- (obsolete, rare) the Equator
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:Men from the fartheſt Equinoctiall line,
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