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Still, the moon may influence the weather, though she may not effect changes at her syzygies or quadratures, and this subject should not be too summarily dismissed.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden

The syzygies are characteristic of the Valentinian teaching, and the symbolism of marriage plays an important part in the “system” of all the Valentinians.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen

From the most abstract origins of being to their end, there are only syzygies, marriages, and generations.”

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen

Are not those palsies and apoplexies more dangerous which commence many days before the syzygies of the moon, than those which happen at those times?

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Let us assume the mean distance of 60 diameters in the syzygies; and suppose one revolution of the moon, in respect to the fixed stars, to be completed in 27d. 7h.

From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith