Meanings
plural sphears
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of sphere.
They underſtood not the motion of the eight ſphear from Weſt to Eaſt, and ſo conceived the longitude of the ſtarres invariable.
1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Adherence unto Antiquity”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 18
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