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Definition of New phase of the moon
1. Noun. The time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent.
Lexicographical Neighbors of New Phase Of The Moon
Literary usage of New phase of the moon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scientific Basis of Sabbath and Sunday: A New Investigation After the Manner by Robert John Floody (1906)
"1 The picture of the new phase of the moon, with an altar attached to it, reveals,
as clearly as such could, that the new phases of the moon were worshipped ..."
2. Twelve Studies on the Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History by Charles Foster Kent, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (1912)
"The new moon, therefore, marked the beginning of the month and each succeeding
Sabbath a new phase of the moon. The fourth commandment seems, therefore, ..."
3. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History from the Creation to the Death by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"If the sabbath, therefore, was originally a sacred day, observed at the beginning
of each new phase of the moon, there is every reason to believe that it ..."
4. The Rhineland by Walter Marsden (1973)
"Others include the moon and star, because they have come out by the time people
go home, and because Lent begins with a new phase of the moon. ..."
5. A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents by James Martineau (1900)
"Thus, swift as are the undulations of light, a new phase of the moon would earlier
reach an eye nearer to it by a thousand miles than it reaches ours; ..."
6. Siam in the Twentieth Century: Being the Experiences and Impressions of a by J. G. D. Campbell (1902)
"... places of business are closed, while no official notice is taken of the Siamese
wan phra, or holiday, which occurs at every new phase of the moon. ..."
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