Meaning of Zenith | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The point in the sky vertically above a given position or observer; the point in the celestial sphere opposite the nadir.
2. The highest point in the sky reached by a celestial body.
3. Highest point or state; peak.
   broadly

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Examples

“The 12 day wee had the wind high and large ſo that in two dayes ſaile we made the Sunne our Zenith or verticall point[…]”

“In this 10th m. appeared that prodigious Comett the tayl whereof was like the blade of a double edged sword, and reached almost from the horizon to the zenith.”

“In the east a pillar of cloud reared from horizon to zenith, with a kind of arm outstretched like a threatening colossus.”

“[…] in the middle of the day, when the sun was in the zenith, the violence of the heat was too great to stir out […]”

“As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.”

“Winning the continental championship was the zenith of my career.”

“I find my zenith doth depend upon / A most auspicious star.”

“It was during those civil troubles […] this aspiring family reached the zenith.”

“"There for a while I enjoyed myself in the zenith of glory and pleasure."”

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