Meaning of circumgyrate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To move around something.
   intransitive
2. To cause to move around something; to cause to orbit.
   transitive
3. To turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
   intransitive
4. To cause to turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
   transitive
5. To make circuits (around an area or space).
   intransitive
6. To be formed into a bent or curved shape (around something).
   intransitive
7. To form into a bent or curved shape.
   transitive

Examples

“Only an incident in the sun’s system is eight small potatoes, called planets, circumgyrating at distances from 36 million to 2,791 million miles from the central sun.”

“Volyendesta is a watery planet, with a large, rapidly circumgyrating moon afflicting its inhabitants with a vast variety of unstable moods […]”

“The soul about it self circumgyrates Her various forms,”

“Indirect power is the same as that which is sometimes called directive power or potestas directiva. For the word “direct,” one day, got up and turned its back upon itself. Its meaning has circumgyrated.”

“[…] a wheel, when circumgyrated upon its Axe, is sensibly moved, but not removed from one place to another.”

“[…] the one who impressed me most [was] a rumba dancer […] known for dancing to the rhythm of Cuban drums in a bikini with silver fringes while somehow circumgyrating at variable and independent speeds, each of her enormous tits […]”

“[…] every motion of the small fish playing in its [the stream’s] pellucid pools, was as distinctly visible as those of the unfortunate goldfish one sometimes observes pensively circumgyrating in the interior of its enchanted globular ball in the shop-window.”

“[…] the philosopher with his long white hair hanging down his shoulders, either writing in his library or “circumnavigating” round his garden […]”

“1850, Oliver Tiffany, Canada Patent No. 298,“Certain improvement in the apparatus for warming houses,” Patents of Canada, from 1849 to 1855, Volume 2, Toronto, 1865, […] it circumgyrates round the stove, and exposes its large surfaces to the air warming space […]”

“[…] that […] all the Glands of the Body should be Congeries of various sorts of Vessels curl’d, circumgyrated and complicated together, whereby they give the Blood time to stop and separate through the Pores of the capillary Vessels into the Secretory ones,”

“You can’t begin to try to tell him till you’ve clean circumgyrated yourself away down into his confidence.”

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