Citations:ascian

English citations of ascian

noun

• 1871, John Richard LANGLER, The Main Facts of Popular Astronomy and Mathematical Geography, Etc, page 54:

  […] ; ascians, those who have the sun at noon in their zenith; amphiscians, intertropical inhabitants, whose noon-shadows are thrown in opposite directions at opposite seasons of the year; heteroscians, those who, in the […]

adjective

• 2001, Daniel Sloate, Of Dissonance and Shadows: Collected Poems, Guernica Editions, →ISBN, page 152:

  […] as the day conjured the night away once more but wasn't it chastisement there in the long unfinished shades of dawn to see your body standing ascian and alone […]