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SYZYGY (Gr. vu( uyia, a yoking together, from clv, together, and root yoke)

SYZYGY (Gr. vu( uyia, a yoking together, from clv, together, and See also:
ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
root yoke) , in See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, either of the points at which the See also:

moon is most nearly in a See also:

LINE

line with the See also:

sun . The moon passes her syzygies, or is in a See also:

SYZYGY (Gr. vu( uyia, a yoking together, from clv, together, and root yoke)

syzygy, at new and full moon . 3 See also:

THEOCRITUS

Theocritus, See also:

BRUNCK, RICHARD FRANCOIS PHILIPPE (1729-1803)

Brunck, Analecta See also:

VETO (Lat. for " I forbid ")

veto. poet. graec. i . 304 .

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