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orbiculariter

orbiculariter [ML] 1 (of movement) in a circle, in circular fashion. b (~iter operare) to embroider with circular pattern. c (fig.) so as to form a circle, in turn. non extensive nec in infinitum, sed ~iter Adel. QN 61 (v. extensive a); similiter potest ostendi de qualibet parte firmamenti cum ipsa moveatur ~iter J. Blund An. 6; sequitur celum naturaliter secundum lineam circularem ~iter moveri Ps.-Gros. Summa 557; si punctus lucis, in diaphano ponatur, ~iter se diffundit Peckham Persp. I 6; [leo] ad cujus vocem terrentur animalia et subito figunt gradum, contra que caudam ~iter ducit et illius nature circulum transire quodlibet animal pertimescit Upton 125.  b 1245 casula ‥ de diaspero albo plano ~iter operata avibus et arboribus in orbicularibus Invent. S. Paul. 482.  c quatuor virtutibus invicem sibi ~iter annexis R. Niger Mil. II 12. 2 in a manner that encircles. montibus etheriis ~iter undique conclusa ecclesia Gir. IK I 3 p. 37; petrosis in rupibus in theatri modum ~iter circumstantibus Ib. II 7; in loco quodam ‥ aquis et paludibus ~iter obsito Id. EH I 5; lignorum aridorum strue ~iter ursum cinxerunt Neckam NR II 129. 3 in a manner that encompasses or wraps around. velud stola aurea collum undique ~iter circumtexerat R. Cold. Cuthb. 114; trium quorum [sc. elementorum] quodlibet terram ~iter undique circumdat Sacrob. Sph. 78; ’~iter’, id est, rotunditatem terrarum involvunt sicut cepa cepam Comm. Sph. 264; nam hec due tunice, sc. exterior cornea et interior sclirotica, vitreum humorem ~iter [Trevisa: al round] in se claudunt Bart. Angl. V 5. 4 in the manner of an orb or disc (in quot., of full moon). luna debita luminositate destituta, destitui contentis cuncta videbis. eadem iterum ~iter illustrata ossa medullis, capita cerebris ‥ plena reperies Gir. TH II 3 p. 79.

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