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polyhedric, a.|pɒlɪˈhɛdrɪk|
Also polyedric.
[f. as prec. + -ic.]
= prec. 1. Also fig. ‘many-sided’.
1819Shelley P. Bell the Third Ded., Peter is a polyhedric Peter, or a Peter with many sides... He is a Proteus of a Peter. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xliii. (1856) 400 The ice, broken into polyhedric masses, gave at a few hundred yards no indications to the eye of the lines of separation. 1893Sat. Rev. 28 Jan. 88/1 Most questions are polyhedric.
So polyˈhedrical a. rare.
1663Boyle Exp. Hist. Colours i. iii. §6 The protuberant particles may be of very great variety of figures, spherical, elliptical, polyedrical, and some very irregular. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 42 They all seem like Fragments of Crystal..of irregular polyhedrical figures. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. II. 199 Which body must be spherical or polyedrical. |