circumgyre

English

Verb

circumgyre (third-person singular simple present circumgyres, present participle circumgyring, simple past and past participle circumgyred)

1. Obsolete form of circumgyrate.
   • 1583, Philip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses‎^[1], London: Richard Jones:

     Gold wreathes circumgyring the temples of their heads.

   • 1635, Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells‎^[2], London: Adam Islip, Book 6, p. 332:

     And as the Mill, that circumgyreth fast,
     Refuseth nothing that therein is cast,
     But whatsoeuer is to it assign’d,
     Gladly receiues, and willing is to grynd;