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dinetical

dinetical adjective: revolving on an axis.

Adjective

dinetical (comparative more dinetical, superlative most dinetical)

  1. (obsolete) Revolving on an axis.
    • Besides the revolution it maketh with its orbs, it hath also a dinetical motion, and rolls upon its own poles.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
    • dinetical motion1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC

Forms of dinetical

comparativemore dinetical
superlativemost dinetical

Origin of dinetical

From Ancient Greek δινέω (dinéō, “to whirl round”).

Questions about dinetical

What does dinetical mean?
Dinetical means revolving on an axis.
What part of speech is dinetical?
Dinetical is an adjective.

Words near dinetical in the dictionary

  1. dines out on
  2. dines with Duke Humphrey
  3. Dineses
  4. dinest
  5. dineth
  6. dinetical
  7. dinette
  8. dinettes
  9. dineutron
  10. dineutrons
  11. dineware

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