Halcyon vs Equable - What's the difference?
halcyon | equable |
In classical legends, a bird said to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters; later usually identified with a type of kingfisher, hence (poetic) a kingfisher.
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* 1665 , (John Dryden), (The Indian Emperour) , IV iv 132:
* c''.1880 , (Ambrose Bierce), '' :
* Dryden
A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon'', such as the sacred kingfisher ''(Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher
Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.
Unvarying]], [[calm, Calm and steady; constant and uniform.
(of temperature) Free from extremes of heat or cold.
(of emotions etc) Not easily disturbed; tranquil.
As a proper noun halcyon
is .As an adjective equable is
unvarying]], [[calm|calm and steady; constant and uniform.halcyon
English
Noun
(en noun)- the Halcyon' bird, or as some call it Alcedo or Kings-fisher, exceeds all mens conceit..
- Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be / As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.
- And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.
- Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be / As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.
Adjective
(en adjective)Quotations
{{timeline, 1700s=1787, 1800s=1842, 1900s=1919 1963}} * 1787 — *: Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age. * 1842 — , Cicero *:* Deep, halcyon repose. * 1919 — *: I had wander’d in rapture beneath them, and bask’d in the Halcyon clime. *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham) , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}