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What is a colure?

What is a colure? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (astronomy) Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.
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For some reason, the equator, the colure, the zenith and the poles were all marked out by these serpentine or draconic forms.
Two great circles, the solstitial colure and the equinoctial colure, intersect at the celestial poles.
The solstitial colure is a great circle which passes through the celestial poles and these two solstitial points.
The equinoctial colure is a great circle which passes through the celestial poles and the ecliptic at the two equinoxes.
Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star.
The absent of discipline by this owner-manager, at stage 2, leaded the SME to colure.

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