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▪ I. rotund, n. Now rare.|rəʊˈtʌnd|
[Subst. use of next: cf. F. rotonde, It. rotonda.]
†1. A globe or ball. Obs.—1
1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §64 The..kyng of Englande..is fygured holdynge in his left hand a ronde rotunde, representyng his Impery.
†2. A circular company of persons. Obs.
1636R. Griffin in Ann. Dubrensia (1877) 53 Since that brave Heroe dy'd.., Arthur, with his rotund of Knights.
†3. A round building or space. Obs.
1740Dyer Ruins Rome 402 And Phœbus' temple nodding with its woods Threatens huge ruin o'er the small rotund. 1756Burke Subl. & B. ii. ix, For in a rotund, whether it be a building or a plantation, you can nowhere fix a boundary. 1778England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Wells, The chapter⁓house is a rotund, supported by a pillar in the middle.
†4. A round of occupation. Obs.—1
1799R. Sickelmore Agnes & Leonora I. 2 She retired from the bustle and monotony which a diurnal rotund of company produces.
5. A round expanse or extent; one who, or that which, has a rounded form.
1802Mrs. J. West Infidel Father I. 16 The frown which gradually overcast the luminous rotund of Lady Fitz John's countenance. 1860I. Taylor Ult. Civiliz. 183 The merry rotund of the front aspect. 1882Nature XXV. 405 Not only do the worker-ants store the ‘rotunds’, but when they require food they go to the rotunds, which feed them.
▪ II. rotund, a.|rəʊˈtʌnd|
[ad. L. rotund-us, related to rota wheel: cf. rotound a. and round a.]
1. Round, circular, orbicular. Now rare except in scientific use.
1705Addison Italy 177, I..can't forbear thinking the Cross Figure more proper for such spacious Buildings than the Rotund. 1796W. H. Marshall W. England II. 75 The Town.., surrounded with inferior streets, caps a rotund hillock. 1843S. C. Hall Ireland III. 200 All the Mithraic..temples were rotund. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 153 Test rotund or cordate. 1866Treas. Bot. 993/1 Rotund, orbicular, a little inclining to be oblong. 1878Anderson Exp. Yun-nan 210 The more rotund character of the parietals.
Comb.1852Dana Crust. ii. 1270 Centre of posterior margin deeply rotund-excavate.
2. Of the mouth: Rounded in the act of utterance. Hence transf., sonorous, full-toned.
After L. ore rotundo (Horace Ars Poet. 323).
1830James Darnley xl, A long detail of grievances poured forth from the rotund mouth of Jekin Groby. 1831De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 765 The style of Latin they affect is..too florid, too rotund. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. xiii, A most rotund and glowing negative. 1886Manch. Exam. 14 Jan. 5/6 He read out, in a fine, rotund, elocutionary style, the message.
3. Rounded, plump, podgy.
1834James J. Marston Hall x, Various peculiar points in his rotund conformation. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxiv. 243 If they would bring to me their rotund little companion within three days. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxx, This pink-faced rotund specimen of prosperity.
Hence roˈtund v. trans., to make round, cause to become round.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 20 He would have them by some device to have their Heads rotunded or rounded. 1822Examiner 187/1 A tall gaunt Scot, somewhat rotunded by good fortune and ministerial dinners. |