orbitary
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a word derived from
orbit.
orbitnounthe curved path, usually elliptical, taken by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
Example Sentences
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Even as the illimitable ichor of star-dust, the mysterious Demiurge of the Universe, keeps the suns and planets to their orbitary revolutions, so must environment mark the Fas and Nefas of Genius.
From The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor by Wallace Irwin
Gall places it above the orbitary cavity of the eye, and even behind it.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen