Middle English Dictionary Entry
circūlẹ̄r adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | circūlẹ̄r adj. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Circular in contour; as noun: a circle; (b) vaulted, arched; (c) orbital (motion); moving in an orbit; (d) cyclic, periodic.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.864 : In þe theatre þer was a smal auter..þat was half circuler.
- a1450(?1420) Lydg.TG (Tan 346)36 : Þis place, þat was circulere..bentaile wrouȝt.
- c1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)1993 : [Geometry] taught of euery spere..Whyche lyne ys ryght..Whyche circuler.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)94/11 : It ys departyd in two diuisiouns of cerculers and speres.
b
- c1500(?a1437) ?Jas.I KQ (SeldArch B.24)st.1 : Heigh in the hevynnis figure circulere The rody sterres twynklyng as the fyre.
c
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.m.1.35 : The schynynge juge of thinges..governeth the swifte wayn (that is to seyn, the circuler moevynge of the sonne).
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.2 Merch.(Hrl 2255)677 : Thylke sterrys..by her concours and mevyng circuleer.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)3123 : Off hevenly bodyes cyrculer, He [God] stant no thyng in ther daunger.
- a1500 Lydg.LOL (Adv 19.3.1)p.103 : As Phebus went by meuyng circulere So they kept hor tymes by degre.
d
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.3043 : Fortunys chaunges & meeuynges circuleer..Now oon set up ful hih in hir chaieer [etc.].
- a1500(c1445) Lydg.Mir.Edmund (Ashm 46)11 : The sylve same yeer A thousand, toold ffro the Natiuite Off Cryst Jhesu by mevyng circuleer, Fourty and oon.
- a1500 Add.Hymnal (Add 34193)456/38 : Thys present dey be mevynge cerculere Beyryth playne wyttnes..By reuolucyone frome yere to yere That all owr helth is frome heyvyns hye.