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circumgyration|ˌsɜːkəmdʒaɪˈreɪʃən|
Also -giration.
[n. of action f. prec.: see -ation.]
1. The act of turning round as a wheel; rotation, revolution on an axis.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1198 A certaine turbulent and irregular circumgiration. 1635N. Carpenter Geog. Del. i. iv. 75 This circumgyration of the Earth causeth the rising and setting of the Sunne. 1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 336 The apparent circumgyration of objects on ceasing to revolve. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. (1877) 406.
b. Giddiness, vertigo. ? Obs. rare.
1656Blount Glossogr., Circumgyration..a turning or wheeling round about, a dizziness. Howell in Lustra Ludovici [1646]. 1881Syd. Soc. Lex., Circumgyration..Also, a term for giddiness.
2. Moving in a circular or circuitous course; circling, wheeling, turning about, travelling round.
1607Dekker Knts. Conjur. (1842) 61 Acheron (after many circumgirations) fals into the Stigian Lake. 1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. 159 Magnetical Bodies, whose exspirations..return in Circumgyrations to their Bodies again. 1847De Quincey Secret Soc. Wks. VII. 270 After endless circumgyrations, never nearer to any opening.
†b. Circuit. Obs.
1651Howell Venice 30 Zant..hath about 60 miles in circumgyration.
3. fig.
1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. i. 117 No Rhetorical flourishes, no circumgiration of words. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. VII. xvii. ii. 21 A total circumgyration, summerset, or tumble heels-over-head in the Political relations of Europe. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. 207 Harley once described a famous speech as ‘a circumgyration of incoherent words’.
4. Convolution, contortion.
1843J. Wilkinson Swedenborg's Anim. Kingd. I. v. 168 The circumgyration of the intestines is apparently so erratic and confused. |