absciss in a sentence

1. George Crabb in 1823 defined co-ordinates ( now dropping its hyphen ) as " a term applied to the absciss and ordinates when taken in connexion, " later better known as the magnitudes that determine the position of a point; geographers and navigators still later used coordinates to describe the use of longitude and latitude in locating a spot on the globe.
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