circumgyre
English
Noun
circumgyre (third-person singular simple present circumgyres, present participle circumgyring, simple past and past participle circumgyred)
- 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;
- 1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses, London: Richard Jones,
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