circumgyration
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- circumgyratory adjective
Etymology
Origin of circumgyration
First recorded in 1595–1605, circumgyration is from the Late Latin word circumgȳrātion- (stem of circumgȳrātiō ). See circum-, gyration
Example Sentences
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The ingenious and learned M. Sauvage has mentioned other theories to account for the apparent circumgyration of objects in vertiginous people.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
To these movements of the eyes, of which he supposes the observer to be inconscious, Dr. Wells ascribes the apparent circumgyration of objects on ceasing to revolve.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
In the vertigo from circumgyration the irritative motions of vision are increased; which is evinced from the pleasure that children receive on being rocked in a cradle, or by swinging on a rope.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
But this rolling of the eyes, after revolving till we become vertiginous, cannot cause the apparent circumgyration of objects, in a direction contrary to that in which we have been revolving, for the following reasons.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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