单词 | vertiginate |
释义 | vertiginateadj. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. Categories » ‘Turned round, giddy’ (Webster, 1864). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021). vertiginatev. rare. intransitive. To turn round, spin, or rush dizzily. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > whirl turnOE whirlc1384 hurlc1400 reelc1400 whirligig1687 vertiginate1814 wirble1848 1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 23 My steed..with an incredible acceleration of velocity, vertiginated along the arable. 1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 52 Brine, that once vertiginated in the pacifick ocean.] 1814 Last Act i. iii, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 372 I, your great Chiron, was your instructor; and thitherward my glory vertiginates. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 212 Surely never did argument vertiginate more! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < adj.1864v.1814 |
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