circumgyre

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circumgyre (third-person singular simple present circumgyres, present participle circumgyring, simple past and past participle circumgyred)

  1. Obsolete form of circumgyrate.
    • 1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses, London: Richard Jones:
      Gold wreathes circumgyring the temples of their heads.
    • 1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, 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;