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vertic

vertic adjective: vertical; hence specifically radiating from above.

Adjective

vertic (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Vertical; hence specifically radiating from above.
    • But should you, smit with terror, cast
      Your infant foliage on the blast,
      Or faint beneath the vertic heat,
      Or shrink when wintry tempests beat,
      There is a plant of constant bloom,
      And it shall deck this lowly tomb,...1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, Gratitude, page 21
    • Land of the sun! beneath whose vertic rays
      The lion crouches, and the tiger plays1887, George A. Young, “Bob Bangyoursoul’s Lecture on Nothing and How to Philosophically Wear it in Warm Weather”, in Whatever Is, Was […], page 341

Questions about vertic

What does vertic mean?
Vertic means vertical; hence specifically radiating from above.
What part of speech is vertic?
Vertic is an adjective.

Words near vertic in the dictionary

  1. vertexing
  2. vertexless
  3. vertexwise
  4. vertibility
  5. vertible
  6. vertic
  7. vertical
  8. vertical alignment
  9. vertical alignments
  10. vertical angle
  11. vertical angles

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