Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Spherically; circularly.

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  • adverb In an orbicular fashion.

Etymologies

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orbicular +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The same person affirms that the sun proceeding in its motion in the infinite space, appears to us to move orbicularly, taking that representation from its infinite distance from us.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • The Stoics, that the air is not composed of small fragments, but is a continued body and nowhere admits a vacuum; and being struck with the air, it is infinitely moved in waves and in right circles, until it fill that air which surrounds it; as we see in a fish-pool which we smite by a falling stone cast upon it; yet the air is moved spherically, the water orbicularly.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • For there is a division of the universe into spheres, which are contiguous by their nature but appear to reason to be separated; and he concludes that each of the spheres is an animal, composed of a body and soul; the body of them is ethereal, moved orbicularly, the soul is the rational form, which is unmoved, and yet is the cause that the sphere is in motion.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • If you mistrust the verity of this relation, and demand for further confirmation of my assertion a visible sign, as the Jews and such incredulous infidels use to do, take a fresh egg, and orbicularly, or rather ovally, enfold it within this divine Pantagruelion.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • If you mistrust the verity of this relation, and demand for further confirmation of my assertion a visible sign, as the Jews and such incredulous infidels use to do, take a fresh egg, and orbicularly, or rather ovally, enfold it within this divine Pantagruelion.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Take a peach: what you call the flesh of the peach, the substance which you eat, is massed orbicularly around a central stone -- often as large as a pretty large strawberry.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

  • _The Scene changes, and represents, above, a Sun gloriously rising and moving orbicularly: at a distance, below, is the Moon; the part next the Sun enlightened, the other dark.

    The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 John Dryden 1665

  • If you mistrust the verity of this relation, and demand for further confirmation of my assertion a visible sign, as the Jews and such incredulous infidels use to do, take a fresh egg, and orbicularly, or rather ovally, enfold it within this divine

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • a little rain stills a great wind, and we must think so, seeing that the sergeant hath propounded the matter so far above my reach, that the clerks and secondaries could not with the benefit thereof lick their fingers, feathered with ganders, so orbicularly as they were wont in other things to do.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • a little rain stills a great wind, and we must think so, seeing that the sergeant hath propounded the matter so far above my reach, that the clerks and secondaries could not with the benefit thereof lick their fingers, feathered with ganders, so orbicularly as they were wont in other things to do.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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