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单词 sphery
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spheryadj.

/ˈsfɪəri/
Forms: Also 1500s spherie, 1600s spheary, 1800s spherey.
Etymology: < sphere n.
1. Of or pertaining to, connected with, the spheres or heavenly bodies; sphere-like.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [adjective]
crystalc1450
sphery1600
sphericala1616
spheric1648
spheral1829
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 105 What wicked and dissembling glasse, of mine, Made me compare with Hermias sphery eyen! View more context for this quotation
1637 J. Milton Comus 35 Love vertue,..She can teach yee how to clime Higher then the Sphærie chime.
1816 J. Keats Ep. to Bro. George 4 In seasons when I've thought No spherey strains by me could e'er be caught From the blue dome.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 107 A thousand Powers..Hold sphery sessions for a season due.
1867 J. Ingelow Story of Doom 217 Hurrying down the sphery way, Night flies.
1882 J. A. Symonds Animi Figura 121 Discord that jars upon the sphery tune.
2. Having the form of a sphere. Also in combinations.
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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
1600 J. Lane Tom Tel-Troths Message 183 Astronomie..hath lost By cruell fate her starre-embroidred coate; Her spherie globe in dangers seas is tost, And in mishap her instruments doe floate.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iii. 226 This way, ye gloomy, sphery-bodied monster throng [of phantoms]!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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