Crossword-Solution: LUNATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lunation | n. | The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29/ to 29/ days, the average length being 29 d., 12h., 44m., 2.9s. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LUNATION | anagram | ULTONIAN |
We have 4 clues for the answer “LUNATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MONTH which determines the phases of the moon | 2 answers |
| new moon to new moon | 2 answers |
| LUNAR month | 3 answers |
| Epoch | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with LUNATION (5)
Airy (The Athenζum, Nov.29, 1884) justly objects to Sale's translation "The hour of judgment approacheth" and translates "The moon hath been dichotomised" a well-known astronomical term when the light portion of the moon is defined in a strait line: in other words when it is really a half-moon at the first and third quarters of each lunation.
From the earliest times they had observed the twelve ecliptical "mansions" and zodiacal signs, and also that the time occupied by the sun in travelling through a mansion was rather longer than one lunation, or the time intervening between two new moons.
Thus there was a "superfluity" of about ten days in every lunar year, or about one lunation in every third year; not to mention that a "mansion" was about a day longer than a lunation, and that therefore the husbandman was liable to be thrown out of his reckoning.
Had he lived, and recovered health, it might have proved that he was then only in another lunation: his first was when he passed from poesy to heroism.
That king, who having attended to all these considerations, sets out under a proper constellation and on an auspicious lunation, always succeeds in obtaining victory by properly leading his troops.