Meanings
adjectiveorby (comparative more orby, superlative most orby)
comparative more orby · superlative most orby
- obsoletehaving characteristics of an orb
Their orbye christales moue More actiue than before, And entheate from aboue Their soueraigne prince laude, glorifie, adore.
1623, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Flowers of Sion1 more example
It smote Atrides orbie targe; but runne not through the brasse. When, now arraid The world was with the spring; and orbie houres Had gone the round againe, through herbs and flowers.
[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC
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