Ortive

Or´tive


a.1.Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as, the ortive amplitude of a planet.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"Fortunately my husband Toni and my "Fortunately my husband Toni and my family have always been supp ortive and I have family have always been supp ortive and I have always had a space to do my art.
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(19) Baudin's journal tells us that the determinations were by a number of sextuple azimuths, or octuple azimuths, and/or by ortive and occiduous azimuths or amplitudes.
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