Crossword clues for ascians
ascians
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ascii \As"ci*i\, Ascians \As"cians\, n. pl. [L. ascii, pl. of ascius, Gr. ? without shadow; 'a priv. + ? shadow.] Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inhabitants of the torrid zone, who "haue the Sunne twice euery yeere in their zenith, and then they make no shaddowes at all" [Nathanael Carpenter, "Geographie Delineated forth in Two Bookes," 1635], from Medieval Latin Ascii, from Greek askioi, from a- "not, without," privative prefix (see a- (3)), + skia "shade, shadow" (see shine (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. (plural of ascian English)
Usage examples of "ascians".
And a hundred more besides: Ascians, tall Idas, and grim-mouthed Casdoe with little Severian in her arms.
All the while Maxellindis and me were together you were Autarch, but mostly they said you were off fighting the Ascians.
People said their marrying was good—she could stay in the House Absolute and take care of the Commonwealth while he took care of the Ascians.
Again I endured my imprisonment in the jungle ziggurat by Vodalus, the year I had spent among the Ascians, my flight from the white wolves in the Secret House.
People said their marrying was good--she could stay in the House Absolute and take care of the Commonwealth while he took care of the Ascians.
Would it be possible to hold back the Ascians when there was so much room to maneuver?
But to banish them now would only be to deliver a corps of spies to the Ascians, to be trained and supplied with funds and sent back among us.
There were merchants who had tried to make rich profits on supplies needed by the army, camp followers who had spied for the Ascians, and a sprinkling of sordid civil criminals.
If you don't wake to your business soon, Petronax, you'll be north fighting the Ascians.
Those wide, old-fashioned mantles originated with shepherds (who wear them still), and were passed from them to the military in the days when the fighting with the Ascians took place here in the cool south.