Crossword-Solution: ECLIPSES 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Farr less abhorrd then these Vex’d _Scylla_ bathing in the Sea that parts _Calabria_ from the hoarce _Trinacrian_ shore: Nor uglier follow the Night-Hag, when call’d In secret, riding through the Air she comes Lur’d with the smell of infant blood, to dance With _Lapland_ Witches, while the labouring Moon Eclipses at thir charms.

The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.

Out of the ancient world had come a mass of beliefs regarding comets, meteors, and eclipses; all these were held to be signs displayed from heaven for the warning of mankind.

This made Tacitus, in the very first line of his story, fall upon a verse;[P] and Cicero, the worst of poets, but declaiming for a poet, falls in the very first sentence upon a perfect hexameter.[Q] I feel not in me those sordid and unchristian desires of my profession; I do not secretly implore and wish for plagues, rejoice at famines, revolve ephemerides and almanacks in expectation of malignant aspects, fatal conjunctions, and eclipses.

And I can never find repose when I know and feel that on the other side of a wall several existences are undergoing these regular eclipses of reason.