easts

Noun

east (plural easts)

1. The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°.
   • Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.
2. The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
   • We, in the west, agreed amongst ourselves that a penitentiary should be erected with our half of the money arising as above stated; and the east agreed to improve the country in their vicinity with the other half.1855, John Reynolds, My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life, page 271
3. In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
   • A few [Anglican churches in South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland] are oriented other than due [geographic] east—St. Paul's, St. George's, and Prince George's parish churches face northeast and St. Andrew's, southeast. […] Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St....2014 April 11, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706–2013, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, pages 364–365

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