Crepusculine. World English Historical Dictionary

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a. and sb. rare. [a. F. crépusculin, -ine, ad. med.L. crepusculīn-us, f. crepuscul-um: cf. L. matutīnus, vespertīnus: see -INE.]

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  A.  adj. Pertaining to twilight; illuminated by twilight, dim, dusky.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., vi. 38. Aurora … hed persit the crepusculyne lyne matutine of the northt northt est orizone.

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1667.  Sprat, Hist. Royal Soc., 314 (T.). To take in more or less light … to fit Glasses to Crepusculine Observations.

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1876.  G. Meredith, Beauch. Career (1889), 309. The line of downs ran luminously edged against the pearly morning sky, with its dark landward face crepusculine yet clear in every combe.

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  † B.  sb. The (morning) twilight. Obs.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., 53. In the mornyng … it is callit lucifer, be cause it auancis the day befor the crepusculine.

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