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The canicular weather I suffered from in the south followed me even here.

By comparing two successive years they could of course have got at a sidereal year; but this is what they did not do; hence the irregularity which produced the canicular cycle.

It was midsummer, but no words and no experience of other places can convey an idea of the canicular heat of Jerusalem.

And now in the torrid heat of summer, the canicular days being at hand, the furnaces in the glass-house of the said Angelo have been extinguished.

Adj. hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow. sunny, torrid, tropical, estival†, canicular†, steamy; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking &c. v.; baking &c.