Ascians

Ascians
Ascians inhabitants of the torrid zone, who "haue the Sunne twice euery yeere in their zenith, and then they make no shaddowes at all" [Nathanael Carpenter, "Geographie Delineated forth in Two Bookes," 1635], from M.L. Ascii, from Gk. askioi, from a- "not, without," privative prefix (see A- (Cf. a-) (3)), + skia (see SHINE (Cf. shine) (v.)).

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