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deiseal

deiseal is the alternative form of deasil.

Meaning of deasil

Adverb

deasil (not comparable)

  1. Clockwise, sunwise.
    • In Strathfillan, Perthshire, people are cured of insanity by being made to go three times deasil round a certain pool and then being plunged headlong into it.1939, Wilson Dallam Wallis, Religion in Primitive Society, New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., page 160

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Forms of deiseal

Adverb
alternative formdeisal
alternative formdeasil
alternative formdeisul
alternative formdeshil
Noun
pluraldeiseals

Questions about deiseal

What is deiseal the alternative form of?
Deiseal is the alternative form of deasil.

Words near deiseal in the dictionary

  1. deirid
  2. deirids
  3. deirochelyine
  4. deis
  5. deisal
  6. deiseal
  7. deiseals
  8. deises
  9. Deisher
  10. Deishers
  11. deism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deiseal (page history and authors); deasil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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