verticity

English

Etymology

Compare French verticité. See vertex.

Noun

verticity (plural verticities)

1. The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
   • Sir Thomas Browne

     I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the verticity of the loadstone.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “verticity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)