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ˈvertic, a. poet. Also 7 vertick. [Irregular shortening of next, after tropic, etc.] Vertical, esp. of the sun.
1607W. Barksted Mirrha (1876) 51 Thus much the Goddesse of the floods doth deign to change thy shape, into a vertick flower. 1762Falconer Shipwr. i. 745 While Phœbus down the vertic-circle glides. a1769― Occ. Elegy ix, Unfelt by you the vertic sun may glow. 1800T. Sanderson Orig. Poems 9 Where vertic suns, that torrid fervour pour, Check the grove's music and the vernal flow'r. 1876J. Ellis Cæsar in Egypt 79 Their sacred Well, One day illumined by the vertic Sun. |