a.; also 7 acronick. [ad. Gr. ἀκρόνυχ-ος at nightfall, vespertine; f. ἄκρος tip, point + νύξ night. Cf. Fr. acronyque.] = ACRONYCHAL.
1594. Davis, Seaman’s Secrets, II. (1609), 25. The triple rising and setting of the Starres, Cosmice, Acronyce, and Heliace.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. 1834, 235. Her appearance was like the … acronick rising of the most radient constellation of the firmament.
1833. Keightley, Ovid’s Fasti, 15. The cosmic rising or setting was the true one in the morning: the acronych (ἀκρόνυχος) the true one in the evening.
