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selenographical

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as selenographic.

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  • adjective Alternative form of selenographic.

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Examples

  • In the selenographical maps where, on account of the reversing of the objects by the glasses, the south is above and the north below, it would seem natural that, on account of that inversion, the east should be to the left hand, and the west to the right.

    Round the Moon 2003

  • It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the nomenclature employed in its selenographical charts as attributable to verifiable intuition as to fallacious analogy: the lake of dreams, the sea of rains, the gulf of dews, the ocean of fecundity.

    Ulysses 2003

  • It seemed to him as possible of proof as of confutation and the nomenclature employed in its selenographical charts as attributable to verifiable intuition as to fallacious analogy: the lake of dreams, the sea of rains, the gulf of dews, the ocean of fecundity.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Its geographical (or more correctly, selenographical, _Selene_, moon) map was drawn out more than two centuries ago, at first in a vague sketch, and afterward with more details, until to-day it is as precise and accurate as any of our terrestrial maps of geography.

    Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883

  • The first to emulate Schröter's selenographical zeal was Wilhelm

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

  • Locke from a paper by Olbers, shortly before published, and gave the method followed by Beer and Mädler throughout their selenographical researches in 1833-37.

    Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

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