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Eastern hemisphere   /ˈistərn hˈɛmɪsfˌɪr/   Listen
Eastern hemisphere

noun
1.
The hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia.  Synonym: orient.






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"Eastern hemisphere" Quotes from Famous Books



... Romish religion pervades all the Christian community, so far as allegiance to the beast or his horns is either enjoined or tolerated. This usurpation of the royal prerogatives of Christ over the churches and nations in the eastern hemisphere by the kings of the earth, and a similar usurpation in the western hemisphere, whether by individual despots or by the body politic, is the great crime which fills the measure of the cup of wrath, to be poured out of the ...
— Notes On The Apocalypse • David Steele

... world is made of sea and land, as though they were equal; but we know that there is more sea in the Western than in the Eastern hemisphere. We say that the firmament is full of stars, as though it were equally full; but we know that there are more stars under the Northern than under the Southern pole. We say the elements of man are misery and happiness, as though he ...
— Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - Together with Death's Duel • John Donne



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