10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOLUTATION»
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and ...
cal. motion. For. spherical. bodies. move. by. fives,. and. every. globular. figure.
placed. upon. a. plane,. in. direct. volutation,. returns. to. the. first. point. of.
contaction. in. the. fifth. touch,. accounting by the axes of the diameters or
cardinal points.
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin,
1835
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Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. ...
cal. motion. For. spherical. bodies. move. by. fives,. and. every. globular. figure.
placed. upon. a. plane,. in. direct. volutation,. returns. to. the. first. point. of.
contaction. in. the. fifth. touch. accounting by the axes of the diameters or cardinal
points.
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin,
1835
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An Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language
Written Command] in n_[adL Swearing (aug. Wullowing,[volutation [Sponlion]
under-«[Covered with~' iwambling, Volutation] Warrant), [l'aäìon for М: _banlò
Loathing } . _ ( make _beetle. Ex. V. 8. ~ Averlation (dm-l Warren, Park for
Rabbets] ...
4
A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and ...
VOLUTA, vol-n'ta, i. Volute, a genus of Molluscs, the shells of which are large and
ventricose ; the spire extremely short, very obtuse, and papillary ; the terminal
whorls, where they exist, being smooth and unsculptured. VOLUTATION ...
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Wellman's Literary Miscellany
With respect to the volutation of spirits-a thing which the Greek Platonists call
Metempsychosis or Transmigration — the Cab- balists say that the soul of Adam
passed (volutatem esse!) thro' the body of David, and thence to the Messiah. This
...
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, ...
To move any thing by volutation, or successive application of the different parts of
the surface, to the ground. — Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of
the sepulchre ? Sr. Mark.— To move any thing round upon its axis. — To move in
...
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Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received ...
Now the number of five is remarkable in every Circle, not only as the first
sphaericalNumber, but themeasure of sphaerical motion. For sphatrical bodies
move by fives, and every globular Figure placed upon a plane, in direct volutation
, returns ...
8
Silex Scintillans: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations
To continue after years of discretion in this vanity, is an inexcusable desertion of
pious sobriety : and to persist so to the end, is a wilful despising of Gods sacred
exhortations, by a constant, sensual volutation or wallowing in impure thoughts ...
Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte,
1847
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The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected: under the ...
Wheel ; by continued turning about, or rolling backward or forward. j I
Vertiginating, turninground,Revolutwn, wheeling, Rotation, twirl, whirl,spinn,roll,
round. \ Volutation, tumbling, rolling, wallow, welter, rock, trundle, waddle. Screw,
to which ...
... or Tbrrcwayfii; performing her Course together according to Length, Breadth,
and Depth in the Zodiae; the first or' which Motions Matbrmatiuianscall a direct
Revolurion -, the second Volutation, or an oblique winding and Wheeling in and
out ...
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Historical Thesaurus: On Sounds and Sense
The sound itself might be called grolling, hurling, blumbering, and, uniquely latinate, volutation. On the same model, humans who speak indistinctly have been ... «OUPblog, Nov 09»