Meaning of meridian | Babel Free

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1. Any of the pathways on the body along which chi or qi (life force) is thought to flow and, therefore, the acupoints are distributed; especially, one of twelve such pathways associated with organs of the body.
   Chinese, also, figuratively, rare, traditional
2. noon, midday
3. A number of places in the United States:
4. A ghost town in Humboldt County, California.
5. In full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface.
6. lunchtime
7. An unincorporated community in Kern County, California.
8. In full terrestrial meridian: a great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles (the terrestrial North Pole and South Pole); also, half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude.
   also
9. A neighborhood of San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.
10. The place on the celestial meridian where it is crossed by the sun or a star at its highest point.
    broadly
11. south
12. A census-designated place in Sutter County, California, United States.
13. The highest or most developed point, or most splendid stage, of something; culmination, peak, zenith.
    broadly, figuratively
14. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Douglas County, Colorado.
15. Chiefly followed by of: the middle period of someone's life, when they are at their full abilities or strength; one's prime.
    broadly, figuratively, specifically
16. An unincorporated community in Leon County, Florida.
17. A ring or half-ring with markings in which an artificial globe is installed and may spin.
    broadly
18. An unincorporated community in McIntosh County, Georgia.
19. A line passing through the poles of any sphere; a notional line on the surface of a curved or round body (in particular, an eyeball).
    broadly
20. A sizable city in Ada County, Idaho.
21. The size of type between double great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.
    US, dated
22. A township in Clinton County, Illinois.
23. The south.
    obsolete
24. A charter township in Ingham County, Michigan.
25. Midday, noon.
    obsolete
26. A city, the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.
27. A midday rest; a siesta.
    obsolete
28. A ghost town in Jefferson County, Nebraska.
29. A particular area or situation considered as having a specific characteristic or identity; also, the characteristics, habits, or tastes of a specific group, locale, etc.
    obsolete
30. A village in Cayuga County, New York.
31. An alcoholic drink taken at midday.
    Scotland, obsolete
32. A town in Logan County, Oklahoma.
33. A census-designated place in Stephens County, Oklahoma.
34. A census-designated place in Butler Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
35. A city, the county seat of Bosque County, Texas, United States, apparently named for the 98th meridian west, actually between 97-98 W.
36. A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, also known as Tangletown.

Equivalents

Examples

“In this Place of Venus the Hour and Amplitude of the Sun's Riſing, for one Half of the Year, are the ſame with thoſe of his Setting in the other Half; which will alſo happen in all Places under the firſt Meridian, where he riſes and ſets: […]”

“Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.”

“This vvonderful perſon ſtruck Medals, vvhich he diſperſed as Tickets to his ſubſcribers: The device, a Star riſing to the Meridian, vvith this Motto, Ad Summa [To the highest]; and belovv, Inveniam Viam aut faciam [I shall either find a way or make one].”

“I haue touch'd the higheſt point of all my Greatneſſe, / And from that full Meridian of my Glory, / I haſte novv to my Setting. I ſhall fall / Like a bright exhalation in the Euening, / And no man ſee me more.”

“[…] Ovid liv'd vvhen the Roman Tongue vvas in its Meridian; [Geoffrey] Chaucer, in the Davvning of our Language: […]”

“This was the moment at which the fortunes of Montague reached the meridian. The decline was close at hand.”

“Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Perturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it was with Iulius Cæſar, and Septimius Seuerus.”

“You ſeem to marvel I do not Marry all this vvhile, conſidering that I am paſt the Meridian of my Age, and that to you Knovvledge there have been overtures made me of Parties above my Degree.”

“And here [Missolonghi],—it is impossible not to pause, and send a mournful thought forward to the visit which, fifteen years later, he paid to this same spot,—when, in the full meridian both of his age and fame, he came to lay down his life as the champion of that land, through which he now wandered a stripling and a stranger.”

“Call to mind thy dream, / An earthly globe, / On whoſe meridian was engraven, / Theſe ſeas are tears, and heav'n the haven.”

“[T]he figure of the very earth, vvhich together vvith the vvater, is by the ſame arguments knovvne to be like a Globe: for ſo doubtleſſe it commeth to paſſe, that vvith us the ſtars about the North pole, never go dovvn; and thoſe contrarivviſe of the Meridian, never riſe.”

“He acts his vvhole life on this earthly ſtage, / In Child-hood, Youth, Man-hood, Decripit age. / The very day that doth afford him light, / Is Morning, the Meridian, Evening, Night.”

“"As we have," he said, "in the course of this our toilsome journey, lost our meridian, indulgence shall be given to those of our attendants who shall, from very weariness, be unable to attend the duty at prime, and this by way of misericord or indulgentia."”

“Diet, […] comprehends thoſe ſixe non naturall things, vvhich I haue before ſpecified, are eſpeciall cauſes, and being rectified, a ſole or chiefe part of the Cure. […] VVhich hovvſoeuer I treat of, as proper to the Meridian of melancholy, yet neuertheleſſe that vvhich is here ſaid, vvill generally ſerue moſt other diſeaſes, and eaſe them likevviſe, if it be obſerued.”

“A VVorke not ſmelling of the Lampe, to night, / But fitted for your Maieſties diſport, / And vvrit to the Meridian of your Court, / VVe bring; and hope it may produce delight: […]”

“All other knowledge meerly or principally ſerves the concerns of this Life, and is fitted to the meridian thereof: […]”

“I repreſented to him the good Reception the two firſt Parts had met, that tho' they had been calculated by him, only for the Meridian of Grub-ſtreet, yet they were taken notice of by the better ſort; […]”

“This ſuggeſtion, improbable as it vvas, had the deſired effect upon the captain, being exactly calculated for the meridian of his intellects; […]”

“[H]is accompliſhments were exactly calculated for the meridian of female taſte; and with certain individuals of that ſex, his muſcular frame, and the robuſt connection of his limbs, were more attractive than the delicate proportions of his companion.”

“She loves to gossip about the Abbey and Lord Byron, and was soon drawn into a course of anecdotes, though mostly of a humble kind, suited to the meridian of the housekeeper's room and servants' hall.”

“Plumdamas joined the other two gentlemen in taking their meridian (a bumper-dram of brandy), as they passed the well-known low-browed shop in the Lawn-Market, where they were wont to take that refreshment.”

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