Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or having the shape of a sphere; spherical.
- adj. Symmetrical.
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- adj. spherical
- adj. spherically symmetric
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of or pertaining to a sphere or the spheres.
- adj. Rounded like a sphere; sphere-shaped; hence, symmetrical; complete; perfect.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Rounded or formed like a sphere; sphere-shaped; hence, symmetrical; perfect in form.
- Of or pertaining to the spheres or heavenly bodies; moving or revolving like the spheres; hence, harmonious.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One sees very well that a new astronomy was predicted in the build of that sky-confronting mind; for harmonic ratios, laws, and rhymes played in his spheral soul, galaxies and gravitations stretched deeper within, and systems climbed their flaming ecliptic.
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The cloud-rack, the sunrise and sunset glories, rainbows, and northern lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them; and the part our organization plays in them is too large.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
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The atmosphere is redolent of costly herbs, which, with the well-known rotary motion of the earth, impart density and spacefulness to our spheral persons: this is the philosophy of our presence.
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Hence that wide-spread Pythagorean philosophy, with its spheral harmonics and esoteric mysteries, uniting in one brotherhood for many years men of thought and action, -- dare we say, our inferiors?
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I could not conscientiously lead you to the altar, even a spheral altar, if I were not prepared to pay house rent and coal bills.
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You remember Kenneth Grahame's account of how Harold went to the circus and sang the great spheral song of the circus?
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It is always on the sands that I find the friendliest depths, or in the snow drift of cold planets upon a winter day or else within in the terrible energy of my body, as my heart beats time to the universal spheral rhythm.
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Aristotle's distinction of an active and a passive intellect in man, and his ideas about the spheral spirits as pure Intelligences endowing the heavenly spheres with their motions, were combined by the Arabian
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All individual differences are due to the spheral impressions.
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The vegetative soul comes from certain spheral influences, themselves due to the universal soul, and ultimately to the will of God.
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