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单词 gyronomonic
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gyronomonicadj.

Etymology: Error for *gyrognomonic, < French gyrognomonique , < Greek γῦρος circuit + γνώμων gnomon n.
Obsolete. rare.
(The passage is merely jargon; the French word, if not a grotesque coinage of Rabelais, may have had some such sense as ‘Pertaining to revolution round the dial’.)
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1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxii. 178 The Mendicant Fryers, and Iacobins: who are the two Hemispheres of the Christian World; by whose Gyronomonick Circumbilvaginations.. all the Autonomatick Metagrobolism of the Romish Church..is homocentrically poysed.
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