decan 的定义
Astrology.
- any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac.
更多decan例句
- A third of a sign, a "decan," was 10 degrees of longitude, corresponding to the "week" of ten days used in Egypt and in Greece.
- In this country, in the kingdom of Adel Khan, and in the Decan, those diamonds are found which are called of the old water.
- They bring it made into powder in tubes of cane; and it is worth a great deal in Narsinga, Malabar, and Decan.
- These diamonds are gathered in the first India in a kingdom of Moors called Decan, and they carry them thence to all parts.
- Thus there are at present four English renegadoes in the Decan, besides many Portuguese.