circumgyre

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A form of circumgyrate — To move around something.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

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

present singular third person circumgyres · participle present circumgyring · participle past circumgyred · past circumgyred

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of circumgyrate.

    Gold wreathes circumgyring the temples of their heads.

    1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses, London: Richard Jones
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    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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