单词 | globical |
释义 | globicaladj. 1. Globular, spherical; globelike. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular roundc1300 orbicular?1440 spherical1523 spheral1571 globous1591 globy1595 bulbed1597 orbed1598 sphery1600 spheric1610 globical1612 rotundious1614 globular1626 globed1633 global1637 globose1667 spheriform1678 globosous1681 globar1699 bulbous1783 ball-shaped1802 globate1806 perispheric1828 bulb-like1836 balloon-shaped1839 bulbiform1849 globuloid1889 1612 T. Dekker Troia-Noua Triumphans 95 The earth: whose Globicall Rotundity is Hieroglifically represented by the wheele of the Chariot. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. Ded. p. xii For God through Wisdom hung up aloft these bright, shining and globical Bodies, whereby to illuminate this stupendous Creation. 1698 A. van Leeuwenhoek in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 170 A Globical Roundness. 1720 H. Wilson Trigonom. Improv'd iv. 63 The Globical Projection of the Sphere. 1794 T. Paine Age of Reason 91 Its circular extent is nearly five thousand million; and its globical content is almost three thousand five hundred million times three thousand five hundred million square miles. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities 305 The prints that inspired the Hours of Love always kept the bosom to fruitlike shapes: pears and apples mostly, though some had the globical dimensions of Seville oranges. 2. Heraldry. Of a cross: having limbs which curve outwards as they extend and are convex at the extremities, so as to form a circular outline. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > cross > [adjective] > other types of cross anchored1525 urdee1562 resarcelée1586 resarcelled1586 quarterly pierced1662 patriarchal1682 anserated1688 aquilated1688 globical1688 recercelée1688 quadrate1780 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. 44/2 It is also Blazoned a Cross Patee Globicall (and Patee Circulated or Circuled). 1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Globical, or Convex, circular on the outside. 1847 H. Gough Gloss. Terms Brit. Heraldry at Cross The Cross pattée alisée or globical is a circle in general outline instead of a square. 1863 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 694 There is..a coffin of dark-coloured marble, the lid or cover of which is sculptured with a raised cross of the St. Cuthbert fashion, or as it would be heraldically termed, a ‘globical cross pattée’. 1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 148/2 Globical, cross, a cross having limbs that cover roughly the same area as those of a cross paty..but which has the two sides of each limb concave and the extremity convex. Derivatives ˈglobically adv. rare ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adverb] > spherically spherically1576 globously1653 globically1672 globosely1806 1672 tr. Compleat Gunner iii. ix. 7 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline iii The Hand Granadoes..are Globically or perfectly round and hollow in their interior part in manner of a Sphere. 1713 J. Wise Churches Quarrel Espoused viii. 101 There was before time, a vast Pile of Incoherent Atomes, which Globically hung Sleeping upon a Centre-atom. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xvii. 121 The man, globically proportioned, sat splayfooted, wiping his brow, neck, and nose. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1612 |
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