Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
polyhedral .
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- adjective
Polyhedral ; many-sided.
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Examples
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Peter is a polyhedric Peter, or a Peter with many sides.
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He was a scientist, a linguist, a poet, a geographer, a roughly clever diplomat, a fighter, a man with a polyhedric personality, that caught and gave, something from and to every one.
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The works were directed to a stratum of cellular quartz, * full of polyhedric cavities, mixed with iron-ore, containing auriferous pyrites and small grains of gold, sometimes, it is said, visible to the naked eye.
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The works were directed to a stratum of cellular quartz, * full of polyhedric cavities, mixed with iron-ore, containing auriferous pyrites and small grains of gold, sometimes, it is said, visible to the naked eye.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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If we pass from the differences of temperature manifested in the plains to the inequalities of the polyhedric form of the surface of our planet, we shall have to consider mountains either in relation to their influence on the climate of neighboring
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Peter is a polyhedric Peter, or a Peter with many sides.
Peter Bell the Third Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Peter is a polyhedric Peter, or a Peter with many sides.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Peter is a polyhedric Peter, or a Peter with many sides.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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(Figuier, Figs. 38, 39, p. 42), is nothing else "-- (indeed!) --" than an aggregation of cells, which, first of spherical form, have become polyhedric by their increase and mutual compression. "
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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