Meanings
- rareuncountableThe state or quality of being rotund.
Here there is not so large a rotundation but only of 50 days.
1650, Golden Chaine of Time Leading unto Christ, Published by Act of the Last General Assembly, page 402 more examples
In the angularity of a seed, or in the ineffable thickness of the membrane, or in the elongation or rotundation thereof, will never transform a deciduous Larch into an evergreen Cedar, nor a verdant Cedar into a Silver Fir.
1866, John Nelson, Pinaceæ: Being a Handbook of the Firs and Pines, Hatchard and Co., page 85This is no country for bellies I assure you, though our food is all that I can desire yet the exercise required to procure it is a sure preventative against rotundation.
2013, Lesley Wischmann, Andrew Erskine Dawson, This Far-Off Wild Land: The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson, The Oklahoma University Press, page 249
Origin
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