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Definition: EUROCLYDON

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Euroclydon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)

Etymology:Euroclydon \Eu*roc"ly*don\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression the southeast wind wave, billow; according to another reading,, i. English north-east wind, as in the Latin Vulgate Euro-aquilo.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: EUROCLYDON

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] A tempestuous wind, which drove ashore, on Malta, the ship in which Paul was sailing to Italy. It is supposed to have blown from an easterly point. Acts. 27.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Bible 1: (a violent agitation), a tempestuous wind or hurricane, cyclone, on the Mediterranean, and very dangerous; now called a "levanter." This wind seized the ship in which St. Paul was ultimately wrecked on the coast of Malta. It came down from the island and therefore must have blown more or less from the northward. (Acts 27:14). (references)
  2: Euroclydon south-east billow, the name of the wind which blew in the Adriatic Gulf, and which struck the ship in which Paul was wrecked on the coast of Malta (Acts 27:14; R. V., "Euraquilo," i.e., north-east wind). It is called a "tempestuous wind," i.e., as literally rendered, a "typhonic wind," or a typhoon. It is the modern Gregalia or Levanter. (Comp. Jonah 1:4.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Extended Definition: EUROCLYDON

Euroclydon

  1. A cyclonic tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. It is the modern Gregalia (Gregale) or Levanter.
  2. The name of the wind from the Adriatic Gulf, which wrecked Paul of Tarsus's ship on the coast of Malta (Acts 27:14)
  3. Referenced in the second chapter of Moby-Dick.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Euroclydon". Image Credit.
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