英语词汇“curtation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

curtation

释义

curˈtation
[n. of action from L. curtāre to shorten.]
†1. Alch. The shorter process for transmuting metals into gold. Obs.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiv. v. 301 In this art there are two waies, the one called longation, the other curtation.1606Breton Ourania Song K iij a, Perilous is the way of Curtation.1699R. L'Estrange Colloq. Erasm. (1711) 217 Vouchsafe to instruct me in the blessed way of Curtation.
2. Astron. The difference between the true and the curtate distance of a planet from the sun.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Curtation of a Planet, is a little part cut off from the Line of its Interval, or Distance from the Sun.1726tr. Gregory's Astron. I. 467 The Curtation, which being substracted from the Distance of the Planet from the Sun in its own Orbit..leaves the Curtate Distance of the Planet from the Sun.

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