sphear
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sphear (plural sphears)
- Archaic spelling of sphere.
- 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:
- They underſtood not the motion of the eight ſphear from Weſt to Eaſt, and ſo conceived the longitude of the ſtarres invariable.