Meanings
adjectivevertic (not comparable)
- not comparablepoeticVertical; hence specifically radiating from above.
No shelter from the vertic sun, no cavern for a home.
1907, William Clark Russell, The Turnpike Sailor […], page 672 more examples
But should you, smit with terror, cast Your infant foliage on the blast, Or faint beneath the vertic heat, Or shrink when wintry tempests beat, There is a plant of constant bloom, And it shall deck this lowly tomb,...
1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, Gratitude, page 21Land of the sun! beneath whose vertic rays The lion crouches, and the tiger plays
1887, George A. Young, “Bob Bangyoursoul’s Lecture on Nothing and How to Philosophically Wear it in Warm Weather”, in Whatever Is, Was […], page 341
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