Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having its orb complete or fully illuminated, as the moon; like the full moon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.
Examples
“And, finally, she had great, blazing black eyes -- the half-caste eye, round, full-orbed, and sensuous, which marks the collision of the dark races with the light.”
“Rather, we should stop treating young adults like children, we should throw out this artificial and ill-conceived concept of "teenager," we should teach a full-orbed concept of chastity, and we should encourage younger marriages.”
“The fetters of tradition are being melted off from humanity, and as the dross of materialism is being consumed, thought is being liberated and truth is rising full-orbed before an astonished multitude.”
“But her enjoyment was not long to shine full-orbed: a cloud soon crossed it.”
“Of yon starred concave climbs the full-orbed moon,”
“To do that, a man must be in the battle-attitude not from passion, but by reason of deep conviction, strong conscience and full-orbed courage.”
“Its entrance is the result of a settled design which God formed in eternity, and through which He purposed to reveal Himself to His rational creatures as complete and full-orbed in all conceivable perfections.”
“He can have no adequate appreciation of the glory of God, nor of the riches of grace which are given him through redemption in Christ; for nowhere else as brightly as in the predestination of the elect to life does the glory of God shine out in its full-orbed splendor, undimmed and unsullied by human works of any kind.”
“Her choristers were the birds; her incense the sweet perfume which the grateful earth and her innocent children the flowers continually offer up to their Maker: instead of the gaudy chandelier, she gazed upon the full-orbed moon, hanging like a silver lamp from its dome of blue, and forcibly recalling the Divine Hand which placed it there.”
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
“One reason, perhaps, why mediæval literature assumed so light and unartistic a form was, that by necessity it could not be full-orbed.”
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