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We have just passed the summer solstice, (from the Latin sol for sun and sistere for standing still) the time when the earth “stands still” in a moment that has come to mark the separation of seasons.

2007 June « Becca’s Byline 2007

We have just passed the summer solstice, (from the Latin sol for sun and sistere for standing still) the time when the earth “stands still” in a moment that has come to mark the separation of seasons.

Solstice 2007

And while they battled, the sun stood still. solstice is derived from the Latin word sol, which means sun, and sistere, which means to stand still.

Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Waugh 2008

And while they battled, the sun stood still. solstice is derived from the Latin word sol, which means sun, and sistere, which means to stand still.

Regency Christmas Tradtions: The Origins of Christmas Joanna Waugh 2008

Solstice comes from the Latin words sol, meaning sun, and sistere, to cause to stand still.

Lindsay Mannering: Summertime Spirits, And I Don't Mean Booze 2008

Those are poetical fictions, and that they can [1176] sistere aquam fluviis, et vertere sidera retro,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

O ter felix solum! beatus ego, si me calcaveris; vultus tuus amnes sistere potest, &c. 5467.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

"Monentur etiam et rogantur, ut antè meridiem ad horæ octavæ, post meridiem vero ad secundæ punctum præsentes sese sistere dignentur."

Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 Various

During the Roman imperial epoch the term consistorium (Lat. con-sistere, to stand together) was used to designate the sacred council of the emperors.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Antandro et Phrygiae molimur montibus Idae, incerti quo fata ferant, ubi sistere detur.

Introduction 1912