orbical

orbical

English

Etymology

orb +‎ -ical

Adjective

orbical (comparative more orbical, superlative most orbical)

1. Synonym of orbicular
   • 1870 October, James Manning Sherwood, “Chance”, in Hours at Home: a Popular Monthly of Instruction and Recreation, volume 11, page 523:

     And there are questions respecting this stellar universe which still puzzle the most profound: gravitation, chemical affinity, polarity, the number and distances of some of the celestial bodies; why they are just so orbical, elliptical, or erratic; how many are inhabited, and by what forms of life and what degrees of intelligence?

   • 1953, Philip Warsaw, Genesis, Mother of Sciences: An Exposition, page 37:

     This superimposed argon exerted throughout an unimaginable rigorous pressure over the whole orbical nebula, translative to a sphere of petrified ice and sundry ice ages following relentlessly one another.

   • 1987, Frank Ching, Interior Design Illustrated, page 144:

     To achieve an occult or orbical balance, an asymmetrical composition must take into account the visual weight or force of each of its elements and employ the principle of leverage in their arrangement.

   • 2009, James Scott Bell, No Legal Grounds, →ISBN, page 32:

     His features were orbical — round eyes, round nose, round cheekbones.

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