circumgyrated

Verb

circumgyrate (third-person singular simple present circumgyrates, present participle circumgyrating, simple past and past participle circumgyrated)

1. (intransitive) To move around something.
   • 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.1926, Baker Brownell, The New Universe: A Biography of the Worlds in Which We Live, New York: Van Nostrand, Book 1, Chapter 3, p. 47

   Synonyms:

   orbit

2. (transitive) To cause to move around something; to cause to orbit.
   • The soul about it self circumgyrates
     Her various forms,1642, Henry More, Psychodia Platonica, or, A Platonicall Song of the Soul, Cambridge: Roger Daniel, Book 1, Canto 2, stanza 43, p. 18
3. (intransitive) To turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
   • 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.1874, Lord Robert Montagu, Expostulation in Extremis, London: Burns & Oates, page 46

   Synonyms:

   revolve, rotate, spin

4. (transitive) To cause to turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
   • […] a wheel, when circumgyrated upon its Axe, is sensibly moved, but not removed from one place to another.1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A Fabrick of Science Natural, Book 4, Chapter 2, Section 1, p. 439

   Synonyms:

   rotate, spin

5. (intransitive) To make circuits (around an area or space).
   • […] 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.1854, George Ballantine, chapter 13, in Autobiography of an English Soldier in the United States Army, New York: Stringer & Townsend, page 159
6. (intransitive) To be formed into a bent or curved shape (around something).
   • […] it circumgyrates round the stove, and exposes its large surfaces to the air warming space […]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

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