colure

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Then if the Earth's pole look to E, the �quinoxes are at D, C. Let this be at the time of Metho, when the horns of Aries were in the �quinoctial colure.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

And as the equinoctial colure passed through the middle of Aries, when that sphere was constructed, he infers, by calculations of their retrograde motion from their place then till the year A.D.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William

Caph is equidistant from the Pole, and exactly opposite the star Megres in Ursa Major; with α Andromedæ and γ Pegasi it marks the equinoctial colure.

From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler

Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star. 

From Letters on England by Voltaire

The reverence paid to Taurus continued long after, by the precession of the Equinoxes, the colure of the vernal equinox had come to pass through Aries.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert