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spheral, a.|ˈsfɪərəl|
Also 6 -all.
[ad. late L. sphēr-, sphærālis, f. sphæra sphere n.: see -al1. So It. sferale, Pg. esferal.]
1. Of or pertaining to a sphere or round body; having the rounded form of a sphere; spherical.
1571Digges Pantom. iv. vi. X, Thus also..ye shal most speedily finde these spheral semidiameters. Ibid. xvii. Bbj b, All the sides and diameters both circular and spherall of..regulare solides. 1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 328 In respect of these Bodies Spheral Circumscriptibility. 1766G. Canning Anti-Lucretius ii. 107 These in a form exactly spheral place.
b. fig. Symmetrically rounded or perfect.
1841Emerson Ess., Intellect ⁋19 The poet, whose verses are to be spheral and complete. 1844Ibid., Nom. & Real. ⁋12 There is somewhat spheral and infinite..in every genius.
2. Of or pertaining to the cosmic spheres or the heavenly bodies:
a. Of the supposed music of the spheres.
1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 77 As the Ancients fabled of the Spheral Music. 1845Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 237 She spake as with the voice Of spheral harmony. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. i. 239 The ancients had their spheral melodies.
b. In other contexts.
1849Lytton Caxtons xiv. i, Fortune,..calm and aloft amongst the other angelic powers, revolves her spheral course. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xvi. 409 To discuss the Platonic theory of the spheral motion. 1883Nature 8 Feb. 351 As closely contiguous in space as are the molecules of spheral atmospheres.
Hence spheˈrality, sphericity. rare—0.
1891in Cent. Dict. |