Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, or characteristic of, an equilibrist; balancing.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
equilibristics .
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Examples
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Marvellous Murphys -- new arrivals, who had been playing the Bushwick with their equilibristic act during the preceding week -- to form a party of the extreme left and heckle the speaker, broke down under a cold look from their hostess.
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His mind was essentially equilibristic in material matters, and his way of putting the national situation difficult to refute in a world composed of human beings.
The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900
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His mind was essentially equilibristic in material matters, and his way of putting the national situation difficult to refute in a world composed of human beings.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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His mind was essentially equilibristic in material matters, and his way of putting the national situation difficult to refute in a world composed of human beings.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900
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Even this, however, could not be reached without a leap: Mr. Schnackenberger attempted it; and, by means of his great talents for equilibristic exercises, he hit the mark so well, that he planted himself in the very saddle, as it were, upon the back of this respectable brute.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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