acronych, a.
(əˈkrɒnɪk)
Also 7 acronick.
[ad. Gr. ἀκρόνυχ-ος at nightfall, vespertine; f. ἄκρος tip, point + νύξ night. Cf. Fr. acronyque.]
= acronychal.
| 1594 Davis Seaman's Secrets ii. (1609) 25 The triple rising and setting of the Starres, Cosmice, Acronyce, and Heliace. 1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. 1834, 235 Her appearance was like the..acronick rising of the most radient constellation of the firmament. 1833 Keightley Ovid's Fasti 15 The cosmic rising or setting was the true one in the morning: the acronych (ἀκρόνυχος) the true one in the evening. |