septentrional

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At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Maior produced and divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa Maior.

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  1. Northern; boreal; hyperborean. That is at the Northe parties, that men clepen the Septentrionelle, where it is alle only cold. Mandeville, Travels, p. 131. In the same maner maistow wyrke with any latitude septentrional in alle signes. Chaucer, Astrolabe, ii. § 40. The parts Septentrionall are with these Sp'ryts Much haunted. Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 568. Not only our Saxons, but all the septentrional Nations, adored and sacrificed to Thor, a Statue resembling a crown'd King. Baker, Chronicles, p. 3.

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  1. from Middle English septentrional, septentrionel, septentrionelle, from Old French septentrionel, French septentrional = Spanish setentrional = Portuguese septentrional = Italian settentrionale, from Latin septentrionalis, pertaining to the north, from septentrio (n -), the north: see septentrion.
 

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