Definitions

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  • noun astrology The point where the ecliptic crosses the northern meridian, said to represent the deep subconscious.

Etymologies

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From Latin imum coeli ‘bottom of the sky’.

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Examples

  • The northern, opposite the region where the sun is at midnight, or the _cusp_ of the lower heaven or nadir, is the Imum Coeli, and has at its centre the fourth house.

    Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

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