vertiginousadj.

Brit.

/vəːˈtɪdʒᵻnəs/,

/vəˈtɪdʒᵻnəs/,

/vəːˈtɪdʒn̩əs/,

/vəˈtɪdʒn̩əs/, U.S.

/vərˈtɪdʒənəs/

Forms: Also 1600s vertigenous, virtiginous.

Etymology: < Latin vertīginōsus one suffering from giddiness, < vertīgin- , vertīgo vertigo n. So French vertigineux, Spanish vertiginoso, Portuguese vertiginoso, Italian vertiginoso.

a. Of persons, the head, etc.: Affected with, suffering from, vertigo or giddiness; giddy, dizzy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective]

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1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. i. i. 231 Many phantasticall visions about their eyes, vertiginous, apt to tremble.

1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. i. xix. 233 They grew vertiginous and fell from the battlements of heaven.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 206 The former of these [damps]..makes the Workmen faint, and vertiginous.

1707 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Reflex. upon Ridicule 136 The Head turns and grows vertiginous.

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 69 By these balls fishes are rendered vertiginous, and as it were intoxicated.

1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 299 The ocular spectra of objects..augment the disturbance of the eyes, and thereby add to the confusion of the vertiginous person.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 129 I have never been able to raise it [sc. nux vomica] above seven grains without making the head stupid and vertiginous.

1906 G. Tyrrell in Life (1912) II. xi. 260 At first I was very vertiginous, but am slowly getting my nerves in hand.

figurative.1624 T. Scott Vox Regis 41 The heighth of prosperitie so amazeth the eyes of men, as it makes them vertiginous.1687 J. Norris Disc. Romans 12. 3 in Coll. Misc. xii. 3 §19 If they can stand there without growing vertiginous,..they are still within the Region of Humility.

b. figurative. Giddy-minded; unstable or unsettled in opinions, etc.; inconstant; apt to change quickly; marked by inconstancy, instability, or rapid change.Frequent in the 17th century.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical

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fantastic-

1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 209 This vertiginous Vertumnus, whom Plato describes for an in~artificiall disputant.

1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) i. iii. i. ii. 185 Inconstant they are in all their actions, vertigenous, restlesse, vnapt to resolue of any businesse.

1681 T. Manton Serm. Psalm cxix. 20 in Wks. (1872) VI. 190 Therefore take heed of being given up to this vertiginous spirit, to be turned and ‘tossed up and down with every wind of doctrine’.

1789 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 66 As all men and things are in the same vertiginous condition.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 399 The sphere of publication widened, in this vertiginous era.

1898 J. E. C. Bodley France iii. v. 271 When one thinks of the vicissitudes of those vertiginous days, it is not surprising that..sons of the Revolution [etc.].

2. Of the nature of, characterized by, vertigo.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective]

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1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 76 Sluggish dullnes, a giddy and vertiginous pace,..are sure arguments that Bees are not in good health.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 134 Fisticke Nuts..distemper the bloud, and being much eaten, often~times procure the vertiginous euill.

1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 46 Mustard..strengthening the Memory, expelling heaviness, preventing the Vertiginous Palsie.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. iv. 327 I was suddenly seized with a vertiginous Paroxysm.

1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 460 That staggering or vertiginous disease which is provincially known by the name of Dunt.

1854 Gilfillan Beattie p. xvii Beattie was troubled with a vertiginous complaint.

1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. 9 183 He found that if he closed his eyes the vertiginous feeling was mitigated.

1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. No. 2092. (Epitome) 18 Vertiginous attacks became troublesome at times.

figurative.1626 T. Aylesbury Passion Serm. 13 Their theory was vertiginous, swom in the braine, there floating without anchor, and was of no credit with the will.1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K8^v My strong-winged Muse feeble to slide Into false thoughts and dreams vertiginous.

3. Liable to cause vertigo or dizziness; inducing giddiness. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective] > causing

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1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. 143 There..the station is least firm, the posture most uneasie, the prospect vertiginous.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 326 The Dervis and other Santoons..express their zeal by turning round,..and others I have seen in this vertiginous exercise at the Cavalcades.

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 94 After they had by these vertiginous circulations and clamours turn'd their heads.

1865 W. Kay Crisis Hupfeldiana 78 If any one chooses to look further into this vertiginous subject, he may examine [etc.].

1874 R. L. Stevenson On Unpleasant Places in Ess. Trav. (1905) 242 There is nothing more vertiginous than a wind like this among the woods, with all its sights and noises.

1899 T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. vii. 796 It is generally necessary to avoid crowded rooms and the vertiginous influence of the dance.

a. Of motion: Having the character of rotation or revolution; rotatory.In some cases probably implying the preceding sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective]

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1663 R. Baxter Divine Life 215 The thoughts of earthly fleshly things have power to delude men, and mislead them, and hurry them about in a vertiginous motion.

1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 449 It is found to have a Vertiginous Motion about its own Axis.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation v. 251 So give the Air Impression from above, It in a Whirl vertiginous would move.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 117. ⁋10 That vertiginous motion, with which we are carried round by the diurnal revolution of the earth.

1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius iv. 323 We see, with whirl vertiginous, the Sun From west to east around his axis run.

1832 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. Electro-magnetism xii. §257. 80 The peculiar kind of movement..which Dr. Wollaston attributed to the electro~magnetic agent, and which he termed its vertiginous motion.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. vii. 137 It is the centre whereon infinite contentions unite and clash. What new universal vertiginous movement is this?

1883 Salmon in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 512 All the souls in hell and purgatory..who, in the earth's vertiginous double motion, must roll about like grains of coffee in a grocer's mill.

b. Of an axis: Revolving, rotating.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > revolving or rotating

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1680 Counterplots 6 Whirl'd about with perpetual agitations upon the Vertiginous Axis of that Globe.

Derivatives

verˈtiginously adv. giddily, dizzily.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adverb]

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1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius v. 368 Which..to the centre of the cloud repair, And there..With furious rage vertiginously roll.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xi. 192 The smoothest safest of you all..Will rock vertiginously in turn, and reel, And, emulative, rush to death like me.

1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. ix. 45 A new philosophy occupied his brain, vertiginously big with incoherent births of modern thought.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	vertiginous
释义	vertiginousadj. Brit. /vəːˈtɪdʒᵻnəs/, /vəˈtɪdʒᵻnəs/, /vəːˈtɪdʒn̩əs/, /vəˈtɪdʒn̩əs/, U.S. /vərˈtɪdʒənəs/ Forms: Also 1600s vertigenous, virtiginous. Etymology: < Latin vertīginōsus one suffering from giddiness, < vertīgin- , vertīgo vertigo n. So French vertigineux, Spanish vertiginoso, Portuguese vertiginoso, Italian vertiginoso. 1. a. Of persons, the head, etc.: Affected with, suffering from, vertigo or giddiness; giddy, dizzy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective] dizzyc1340 turngiddy1398 turn-sickc1440 lighta1500 light-headeda1500 dozy1530 swimec1540 giddy1570 swimming1607 vertiginous1608 vertiginal1612 vertiginous1621 vertigious1623 hiddy-giddy1629 swimmering1650 wheel-sick1670 giddyish1711 swimmy1836 whizzy1866 dizzied1870 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iii. i. i. 231 Many phantasticall visions about their eyes, vertiginous, apt to tremble. 1653 Bp. J. Taylor Ενιαυτος: Course of Serm. i. xix. 233 They grew vertiginous and fell from the battlements of heaven. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 206 The former of these [damps]..makes the Workmen faint, and vertiginous. 1707 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Reflex. upon Ridicule 136 The Head turns and grows vertiginous. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 69 By these balls fishes are rendered vertiginous, and as it were intoxicated. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 299 The ocular spectra of objects..augment the disturbance of the eyes, and thereby add to the confusion of the vertiginous person. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 129 I have never been able to raise it [sc. nux vomica] above seven grains without making the head stupid and vertiginous. 1906 G. Tyrrell in Life (1912) II. xi. 260 At first I was very vertiginous, but am slowly getting my nerves in hand. figurative.1624 T. Scott Vox Regis 41 The heighth of prosperitie so amazeth the eyes of men, as it makes them vertiginous.1687 J. Norris Disc. Romans 12. 3 in Coll. Misc. xii. 3 §19 If they can stand there without growing vertiginous,..they are still within the Region of Humility. b. figurative. Giddy-minded; unstable or unsettled in opinions, etc.; inconstant; apt to change quickly; marked by inconstancy, instability, or rapid change.Frequent in the 17th century. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 209 This vertiginous Vertumnus, whom Plato describes for an in~artificiall disputant. 1632 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 4) i. iii. i. ii. 185 Inconstant they are in all their actions, vertigenous, restlesse, vnapt to resolue of any businesse. 1681 T. Manton Serm. Psalm cxix. 20 in Wks. (1872) VI. 190 Therefore take heed of being given up to this vertiginous spirit, to be turned and ‘tossed up and down with every wind of doctrine’. 1789 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 66 As all men and things are in the same vertiginous condition. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 399 The sphere of publication widened, in this vertiginous era. 1898 J. E. C. Bodley France iii. v. 271 When one thinks of the vicissitudes of those vertiginous days, it is not surprising that..sons of the Revolution [etc.]. 2. Of the nature of, characterized by, vertigo. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective] dizzyc1340 turngiddy1398 turn-sickc1440 lighta1500 light-headeda1500 dozy1530 swimec1540 giddy1570 swimming1607 vertiginous1608 vertiginal1612 vertiginous1621 vertigious1623 hiddy-giddy1629 swimmering1650 wheel-sick1670 giddyish1711 swimmy1836 whizzy1866 dizzied1870 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 76 Sluggish dullnes, a giddy and vertiginous pace,..are sure arguments that Bees are not in good health. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 134 Fisticke Nuts..distemper the bloud, and being much eaten, often~times procure the vertiginous euill. 1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 46 Mustard..strengthening the Memory, expelling heaviness, preventing the Vertiginous Palsie. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. iv. 327 I was suddenly seized with a vertiginous Paroxysm. 1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 460 That staggering or vertiginous disease which is provincially known by the name of Dunt. 1854 Gilfillan Beattie p. xvii Beattie was troubled with a vertiginous complaint. 1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. 9 183 He found that if he closed his eyes the vertiginous feeling was mitigated. 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. No. 2092. (Epitome) 18 Vertiginous attacks became troublesome at times. figurative.1626 T. Aylesbury Passion Serm. 13 Their theory was vertiginous, swom in the braine, there floating without anchor, and was of no credit with the will.1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. K8^v My strong-winged Muse feeble to slide Into false thoughts and dreams vertiginous. 3. Liable to cause vertigo or dizziness; inducing giddiness. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adjective] > causing giddy1585 dizzy1608 vertiginous1649 dizzying1804 giddying1820 heady1898 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. 143 There..the station is least firm, the posture most uneasie, the prospect vertiginous. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 326 The Dervis and other Santoons..express their zeal by turning round,..and others I have seen in this vertiginous exercise at the Cavalcades. a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 94 After they had by these vertiginous circulations and clamours turn'd their heads. 1865 W. Kay Crisis Hupfeldiana 78 If any one chooses to look further into this vertiginous subject, he may examine [etc.]. 1874 R. L. Stevenson On Unpleasant Places in Ess. Trav. (1905) 242 There is nothing more vertiginous than a wind like this among the woods, with all its sights and noises. 1899 T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. vii. 796 It is generally necessary to avoid crowded rooms and the vertiginous influence of the dance. 4. a. Of motion: Having the character of rotation or revolution; rotatory.In some cases probably implying the preceding sense. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] rotatory1578 dinetical1646 vertiginous1663 dinetic1668 rotary1704 rotal1724 revolutionary1734 circumrotatory1744 rotative1747 rotatorial1755 verticillary1758 circumvolutionary1809 evolutionary1828 rotational1870 circumductory1872 1663 R. Baxter Divine Life 215 The thoughts of earthly fleshly things have power to delude men, and mislead them, and hurry them about in a vertiginous motion. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 449 It is found to have a Vertiginous Motion about its own Axis. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation v. 251 So give the Air Impression from above, It in a Whirl vertiginous would move. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 117. ⁋10 That vertiginous motion, with which we are carried round by the diurnal revolution of the earth. 1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius iv. 323 We see, with whirl vertiginous, the Sun From west to east around his axis run. 1832 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. Electro-magnetism xii. §257. 80 The peculiar kind of movement..which Dr. Wollaston attributed to the electro~magnetic agent, and which he termed its vertiginous motion. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. vii. 137 It is the centre whereon infinite contentions unite and clash. What new universal vertiginous movement is this? 1883 Salmon in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 512 All the souls in hell and purgatory..who, in the earth's vertiginous double motion, must roll about like grains of coffee in a grocer's mill. b. Of an axis: Revolving, rotating. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > [adjective] > revolving or rotating rolling?1518 turning1558 gyreful1566 gyring1590 revoluble1598 ambient?1614 vertiginous1680 revolving1681 rotating1757 veering1798 gyratory1815 peristrephic1816 peristrephical1827 gyral1828 gyrating1837 volutory1839 volvent1898 1680 Counterplots 6 Whirl'd about with perpetual agitations upon the Vertiginous Axis of that Globe. Derivatives verˈtiginously adv. giddily, dizzily. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > vertigo > [adverb] dizzilyc1175 hiddy-giddya1525 vertiginously1766 giddily1801 dizzyingly1925 1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius v. 368 Which..to the centre of the cloud repair, And there..With furious rage vertiginously roll. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xi. 192 The smoothest safest of you all..Will rock vertiginously in turn, and reel, And, emulative, rush to death like me. 1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. ix. 45 A new philosophy occupied his brain, vertiginously big with incoherent births of modern thought. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1608
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