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globous, a.|ˈgləʊbəs|
[ad. F. globeux (obs.) or L. globōs-us globose.]
= globose. Now rare.
The form is frequent in the 17th and early 18th c. Johnson distinguishes globous and globose on metrical grounds. ‘When the accent is intended to be on the last syllable, the word should be written globose, when on the first globous.’
1610Healey St. Aug. City God 300 The ayre thickning it selfe into a globous body, produceth a world. 1615Crooke Body of Man 433 Though the figure of the head be round, yet is it not exquisitely and to a haire globous, but somewhat long. 1667Milton P.L. v. 649 Wider farr Then all this globous Earth in Plain outspred. 1712Blackmore Creation 22 That they [atoms] Should muster there..And draw together in a globous form. 1790E. Sibly Astrol. (1792) I. 15 The earth is a wheel or globe of sea and land, circumscribed by the atmosphere, which is globous too. 1865L. Gidley Aletes 136 The azure sky Which vaults the globous earth.
Hence ˈglobously adv., ˈglobousness.
1653R. Sanders Physiogn. etc. 276, I shall define the cheeks to be those parts of the face which from the mouth arise globously and most eminent. 1683Phil. Trans. XIII. 207 These Globules then changed into the form of couls..and then they retook their former globousness. |