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- From Latin crepusculum (Wiktionary)
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“Dr.F. also mentions, "that cocks began to crow during the darkness of the eclipse of the sun, Sept. 4, 1820; and it seems that _crepusculum_ (or twilight) is the sort of light in which they crow most.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831
“The first is black, which is called the Crow's head, because of its extreme blackness, whose crepusculum sheweth the beginning of the action of the fire of nature and solution, and the blackest midnight sheweth the perfection of liquefaction, and confusion of the elements.”
“God grant this twilight may prove crepusculum matutinum, forerunning the rising of the sun, and increase of our happiness.”
“During these days, or forty at Medina, or a few more at Babylon and Byblos, the stars of the Husbandman successively sank out of sight, during the _crepusculum_ or short-lived morning twilight of those Southern climes.”
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
“First there is the crepusculum, or daybreak, and so it shines brighter to the meridian.”
“The Christian Sabbath is the very crepusculum and dawning of the heavenly Sabbath.”
“I may call it _Lumen crepusculum_, the _Aurora_ of the Moone, or such a kinde of blushing light, that the Sunne causes when he is neere his rising, when he bestowes some small light upon the thicker vapours.”
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Dan337 See also “crepuscle”, “crepuscular”, “crepuscular arch”, “crepuscular ray”, “crepuscule”, “crepusculine”, and “crepusculous”. Jan 26, 2011
chained_bear "In astronomy, twilight; the time from the first dawn, or appearance of the morning to the rising of the sun: and again, between the setting of the sun, and the last remains of day. The crepusculum, or twilight, it is supposed, usually begins and ends when the sun is about 18 degrees below the horizon; for then the stars of the sixth magnitude disappear in the morning, and appear in the evening. It is of longer duration at the solstices than the equinoxes; because the sun, by the obliquity of his path, is longer in ascending through 18 degrees of altitude...."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 111 Oct 13, 2008