Meaning of antœci | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Obsolete spelling of antoeci.
   alt-of, obsolete, plural, plural-only
2. The inhabitants at two points on the globe that share a longitude and for which the sum of their degrees of latitude equals zero.
   plural, plural-only

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Examples

“Antœci are such as dwell under the same Meridian and the same Latitude or Parallel equally distant from the Æquator; the one northward, the other Southward; the days in both places being of a length; but the Summer of the one being the others winter.”

“Antichthones…comprehend both the Antipodes and Antœci, or all beyond the Line[.]”

“Antœci…have their noon, or midnight, or any other hour at the same time; but their seasons are contrary, being spring to the one, when it is autumn with the other.”

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