meridianing

Verb

meridian (third-person singular simple present meridians, present participle meridianing, simple past and past participle meridianed)

1. (also, figuratively, rare, transitive) To cause an object to reach the meridian or highest point of (something).
   • Simultaneously with the coming of the mist over earth and sea, where both seem merged into one, slowly and exactly at the same time on each side to the right and left rise and form gorgeous rainbows, that move gently up the sky. They ascend in pairs of the most brilliant color and hue. Upward they...1889, Frederic Alva Dean, “Description of the Ancient Petoséga”, in The Heroines of Petoséga […], New York, N.Y.: Hawthorne Publishing Company […], →OCLC, page 10
2. (also, figuratively, intransitive, rare) Of a celestial body: to reach its meridian.
   • At the opposition of 1892 [James Edward] Keeler […] found, on comparing his drawings meridianed by Marth ephemeris with photographs of a globe made by him from [Giovanni] Schiaparelli's chart and set to the longitude and latitude of the time of observation: […]1895 May, Percival Lowell, “On Martian Longitudes”, in George E[llery] Hale, James E[dward] Keeler, editors, The Astrophysical Journal: An International Review of Spectroscopy and Astronomical...

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