equinoctial line
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: […] [R. Robinson for] 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,
Haue ſwarm’d in troopes into the Eaſterne India: […]