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ˈroundwise, adv. and a. Now rare.
[f. round a. + -wise.]
1. adv. In a circular form, disposition, or arrangement; circularly.
1577Harrison Eng. ii. xxv. (1877) 364 King Edward the first..did first coine the penie and smallest peeces of siluer roundwise. 1609Bible (Douay) Lev. xix. 27 Neither shal you cut your heare roundwise; nor shave your beard. 1675H. Woolley Gentlewoman's Comp. 146 Take Apples sliced thin round-wise. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Larch-Tree, It produces its Branches roundwise, at some equal Distance from each other.
2. adj.
a. Circular, round. rare—1.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ii. xxviii, The form (as when with breath our bagpipes rise, And swell) round-wise, and long, yet long-wise more.
b. = roundward a. rare—1.
a1930D. H. Lawrence Apocalypse (1932) 42 The roundwise moving of the cosmos. |