equinoctial line

English

Noun

equinoctial line (plural equinoctial lines)

1. (obsolete) celestial equator
2. (obsolete, rare) the Equator
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:

     Men from the fartheſt Equinoctiall line,
     Haue ſwarm’d in troopes into the Eaſterne India: […]