almicanteras
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
almicanteras
- almucantar
- [a. 1401, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The conclusions of the Astrolabie”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] 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.]