circumgyre

English

Noun

circumgyre (third-person singular simple present circumgyres, present participle circumgyring, simple past and past participle circumgyred)

  1. Obsolete form of circumgyrate.
    • 1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses, London: Richard Jones,
      Gold wreathes circumgyring the temples of their heads.
    • 1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, London: Adam Islip, Book 6, p. 332,
      And as the Mill, that circumgyreth fast,
      Refuseth nothing that therein is cast,
      But whatsoeuer is to it assign’d,
      Gladly receiues, and willing is to grynd;
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