Equinoctial

e-kwe-nok'-shal, a. pertaining to the equinoxes, or to the regions or climate in or near the equator, or to the time when the sun enters the equinoctial points: s. the celestial equator, so called because the sun traverses it at the time of the equinox. Equinoctial flowers,flowers that open at a regular stated hour. Equinoctial points, the two ] points where the ecliptic and the equator intersect each other. Equinoctial time, time reckoned from a fixed instant common to all the world. Equinoctially, e-kwe-nok' -shal-le, ad. in the direction of the equinox. enters one of the equinoctial points, making the day and the night of equal length, the first point ovaries about the 21st of March, and the first point of Libra about the 23rd of September, which are severally called the vernal and the autumnal equinoxes. (L. æquus equal, and nox, night.) See Prece ion.