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centric, a.|ˈsɛntrɪk|
[mod. ad. Gr. κεντρικ-ός pertaining to the centre, f. κέντρον: see centrum.]
1. That is in or at the centre, central.
c1590Marlowe Faustus vi, The substance of this centric earth. 15941st Pt. Contention iv. 18 To pierce the bowels of this Centricke earth. a1631Donne Poems (1650) 33 Some that have deeper digg'd Loves Mine than I, Say, where his centrique happinesse doth lie. 1642H. More Song of Soul i. ii. xvi, Centrick all like one pellucid Sun. 1802G. Colman Br. Grins, Elder Bro. i, Centric in London noise..Proud Covent Garden blooms.
2. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by a centre.
1712Blackmore Creation ii. (R.) Orbs centric and excentrick he prepares. 1850Mrs. Browning Dead Pan iv, Stung to life by centric forces. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. & Ferns 406 In the first type, which may be called the centric, the chlorophyll-parenchyma is uniformly distributed around the entire organ.
3. Phys. Of or pertaining to a nerve centre.
1871Sir T. Watson Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 5) I. 570 When the irritating cause operates directly on the spinal cord itself, he calls the disease centric tetanus. 1873F. E. Anstie in E. H. Clarke Sex in Educ. 110 A non-inflammatory centric atrophy. 1879Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §73. 77 Movements..simply centric, depending upon an excited condition of the ganglionic centres.
B. quasi-n. A circle or circular orbit with the earth in its centre.
1667Milton P.L. viii. 83 How gird the Sphear With Centric and Eccentric scribl'd o're, Cycle and Epicycle. a1764Lloyd Wks. (1774) II. 154 Talk of words little understood, Centric, eccentric, epicycle. |