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deosil

deosil is the alternative spelling 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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Questions about deosil

What is deosil the alternative spelling of?
Deosil is the alternative spelling of deasil.

Words near deosil in the dictionary

  1. deorsum-
  2. deorsumduction
  3. deorsumductions
  4. deorsumversion
  5. deos
  6. deosil
  7. deossification
  8. deossified
  9. deossifies
  10. deossify
  11. deossifying

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