Tropic

Definitions

1. Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.
2. The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.

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Examples

“O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn⟳ no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come⟳ again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang⟳ in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make⟳ the Laws run⟳ in their right Channell; to retrench exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; […]”

“For since on ev'ry Sea, on ev'ry Coast, Your Men have⟳ been distress'd, your Navy tost, Sev'n times the Sun has either Tropick view'd,”

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