The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. Webster Dictionary (5.00 / 2 votes) Rate this definition:Īn interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. She told the king, that her husband was eclipsed in Ireland by the no-countenance his majesty had shewed towards him.Īll pow’r, and us eclips’d. He descended from his father, and eclipsed the glory of his divine majesty with a veil of flesh. Which, like the sun’s, more wonders does afford. Of conquer’d nations tell, and kings restor’d īut mine shall sing of his eclips’d estate, Let other muses write his prosp’rous fate, Seem to eclipse, and cast a cloud on his. They had seen tokens of more than common greatness, howsoever now eclipsed with fortune. Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son, Would seem to all eclips’d as well as one. Now if the earth were flat, the dark’ned moon 413.Īfflicts our thoughts the following year.Īn eclipse of the moon is when the atmosphere of the earth, being between the sun and the moon, hinders the light of the sun from falling upon and being reflected by the moon: if the light of the sun is kept off from the whole body of the moon, it is a total eclipse if from a part only, it is a partial one.Īll the posterity of our first parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life.Įxperience we have of the vanity of human glory, in our scatterings and eclipses. The word originally signifies departure from the place, to which John Milton alludes. An obscuration of the luminaries of heaven the sun is eclipsed by the intervention of the moon the moon by the interposition of the earth. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: ἔϰλειϖσις.
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