gyreful
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
gyreful (comparative more gyreful, superlative most gyreful)
- (obsolete, rare, poetic) Moving in gyres, whirling.
- 1566, Horace, “The fyrst Satyre”, in Thomas Drant, transl., A Medicinable Morall, that is, the two Bookes of Horace his Satyres […][1]:
- Of forayne worlde, on mounte Olimpe / whose carts when they were roulde / With gyrefull sway, by course swyfters, / to winne the glistring branche.
- 1582, Virgil, translated by Richard Stanyhurst, Thee first foure bookes of Virgil his Aeneis […][2], page 95:
- Theyre labor hoat they folow: toe the flame fits gyreful awarding.
- [Their labor hot they follow: to the flame fits gyreful awarding.]
- 1892 November, Mary V. Agnew, “A Sepia Sketch, with Suggestions for a Thanksgiving Dinner”, in Table Talk, volume 7, number 11, page 381:
- Leaf preened by wind takes janty flight, / And gyreful now—now out of sight,
Further reading edit
- “gyreful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.