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mōte
n.(2)
7 quotations in 1 sense
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Astron.
mene mote (motus)
[see
mene
adj. (2)
6.
];
verrei mote (motus)
, a point or angle showing the position of the center of an epicycle, and derived by correcting the mean motus by the equation of…
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