circumgyre
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[edit]circumgyre (third-person singular simple present circumgyres, present participle circumgyring, simple past and past participle circumgyred)
- Obsolete form of circumgyrate.
- 1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses[1], London: Richard Jones:
- Gold wreathes circumgyring the temples of their heads.
- 1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells[2], London: Adam Islip, Book 6, p. 332:
- And as the Mill, that circumgyreth fast,
Refuseth nothing that therein is cast,
But whatsoeuer is to it assign’d,
Gladly receiues, and willing is to grynd;