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ANTOECI

Volume 1 · 112 words · 1771 Edition

in geography, those inhabitants of the earth who live under the same meridian, and at the same distance from the equator; the one toward the north, and the other toward the south. Hence they have the same longitude; and their latitude is also the same, but of a different denomination. They are in the same semicircle of the meridian, but opposite in parallels. They have precisely the same hours of the day and night, but opposite seasons; and the night of the one is always equal to the day of the other.

ANTONIAN Waters, medicinal waters of Germany, very pleasant to the taste, and esteemed good in many chronic and hypochondriac cases.