单词 | globous |
释义 | globousadj. rare in later use. = globose adj. 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 1591 Ripley's Compound of Alchymy Pref. sig. B 3v A globous matter and darke vnder confusion. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. ii. 300 The ayre thickning it selfe into a globous body, produceth a world. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 433 Though the figure of the head be round, yet is it not exquisitely and to a haire globous, but somewhat long. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 649 Wider farr Then all this globous Earth in Plain outspred. View more context for this quotation 1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 22 That they [sc. atoms] Should muster there..And draw together in a Globous Form. 1790 E. Sibly Astrol. (1792) I. 15 The earth is a wheel or globe of sea and land, circumscribed by the atmosphere, which is globous too. 1838 L. Osborn Vision of Rubeta 138 One globous root the fiend transform'd of Hell Push'd in my way. 1865 L. Gidley Aletes 136 The azure sky Which vaults the globous earth. 1997 Amer. Zool. 37 124 The short torso is a good mechanical design for the saltatory frog, but afflicts the tadpoles with a distinctively globous shape. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adverb] > spherically spherically1576 globously1653 globically1672 globosely1806 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie iii. 276 I shall define the cheeks to be those parts of the face which from the mouth arise globously, and most eminent. ΚΠ 1683 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 207 These Globules then changed into the form of couls..and then they retook their former globousness. 1796 J. Entick New Spelling Dict. (new ed.) Globosity, Globousness, a roundness of form. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1591 |
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