Meanings
present singular third person circumgyres · participle present circumgyring · participle past circumgyred · past circumgyred
- obsoleteObsolete form of circumgyrate.
Gold wreathes circumgyring the temples of their heads.
1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses, London: Richard Jones1 more example
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;
1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, London: Adam Islip, Book 6, p. 332
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