Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Spherical; rounded; also, circular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular.
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- adjective
spherical ;orbicular ;circular
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rounding by thee in Oneone common orbic language,
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(The true New Worldthe world of orbic Science, Morals, Literatures to come,)
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The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
Walt Whitman 1900
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The sensitive, orbic, underlappd brothers, that only privileged feelers may be intimate where they are, 25
Spontaneous Me 1900
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Of orbic tendencies to shape, and shape, and shape, The mighty Earth-Eidólon.
Eidólons 1900
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We are two resplendent sunswe it is who balance ourselves, orbic and stellarwe are as two comets;
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A new creation, with needed orbic works launchd forth, to revolve in free and lawful circuitsto move, self-poised, through the ether, and shine like heavens own suns!
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Much quackery teems, of course, even on democracys side, yet does not really affect the orbic quality of the matter.
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To repeat it, all poetry thus has (to the point of view comprehensive enough) more features of resemblance than difference, and becomes essentially, like the planetary globe itself, compact and orbic and whole.
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Infinite are the new and orbic traits waiting to be launchd forth in the firmament that is, and is to be, America.
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