单词 | orbicularly |
释义 | orbicularlyadv. In an orbicular manner; in a circle or ring, round about; in a circular or spherical form. Also figurative: in a fully rounded way. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adverb] roundly?a1425 orbicularly?1520 rotundly1598 orbiculately1856 ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Avjv About the yerth and water Ioyntly they go And compasse them euery where orbycularly. 1631 T. Heywood Londons Ius Honorarium in Wks. (1874) IV. 278 It imitates the Spheres swift agitation, Orbicularly, still mouing to Saluation. 1677 J. Dryden State Innocence ii. i. 10 Above, a Sun, gloriously rising, and moving orbicularly. 1724 J. Macky Journey through Eng. (ed. 2) II. xii. 201 A most graceful Arch,..jutting out somewhat orbicularly. 1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis 97 Her garments..orbicularly expanding. 1843 T. De Quincey Ceylon in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 627/1 The flesh of the peach..is massed orbicularly around a central stone. 1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xviii. 408 They took each other by the hand and danced around orbicularly. 1906 Bot. Gaz. 41 323 Seeds many, orbicularly compressed or somewhat elongated, with reticulate wings. 1924 E. Phillpotts Redcliff xxxiv. 386 The union appeared to me to be as orbicularly perfect and complete as any marriage within my experience. 1988 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 75 606/1 The leaves are harder, their bases more orbicularly dilated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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