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† gyronoˈmonic, a. Obs. rare—1.
[Error for *gyrognomonic, ad. F. gyrognomonique, f. Gr. γῦρο-ς circuit + γνώµων gnomon.]
(The passage is merely jargon; the Fr. word, if not a grotesque coinage of Rabelais, may have had some such sense as ‘Pertaining to revolution round the dial’.)
a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxii, The Mendicant Fryers and Jacobins; who are the two Hemispheres of the Christian World, by whose Gyronomonick Circumbilvaginations.. all the Autonomatick Metagrobolism of the Romish church..is homocentrically poised. |