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Canicular

adjective

Of or relating to the dog days of summer.

Relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star).

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"Canicular" Quotes from Famous Books

... by Baroni, passed the gate of Sion. Not a human being was visible, except the Turkish sentries. It was midsummer, but no words and no experience of other places can convey an idea of the canicular heat of Jerusalem. Bengal, Egypt, even Nubia, are nothing to it; in these countries there are rivers, trees, shade, and breezes; but Jerusalem at midday in midsummer is a city of stone in a land of iron with a sky of brass. The wild glare and savage lustre ...

— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli

... the star for three successive years was at the end of three hundred and sixty-five days, it would, on the fourth year, be delayed one day longer; and, after repeated observation of this phenomenon, they added six hours to the computed duration of the year, and established the canicular period of four years, consisting of one thousand four hundred and sixty-one days. It was not until the days of Julius Caesar that this computation of time was adopted in the Roman calendar; and fifteen centuries from that time had elapsed before the yearly celebration ...

— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy

... well if your friend, or mistress, be content with these canicular probations. Few young ladies but in this sense keep a dog. But when Rutilia hounds at you her tiger aunt; or Ruspina expects you to cherish and fondle her viper sister, whom she has preposterously taken ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb