Usage examples (28)

• The moon revolves around Earth once with respect to the sun in about 29 1/2 days, a period known as a synodic month.
• This striking series of lunar phases, constituting the synodic month, offered man another basic cosmological idea.
• While the complete workings of this ancient calendar may never be fully determined, it is clear that the textile contains three of the components suggested for the later Inka...
• When the subject came before that reverend body, the fathers and brethren thought fit to ordain a solemn humiliation to be observed through all the synodic bounds, with...