elliptick

English

elliptick (comparative more elliptick, superlative most elliptick)

Archaic spelling of elliptic.
- 1704, John Harris, Lexicon Technicum:
  Eccentricity of the earth is the distance between the focus and the center of the earth's elliptick orbit.
- 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Physical Laws, and the Uniform Appearances of Nature. Law III.”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: […] George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXIV, page 39:
  Novv ſince the Planets move in Elliptick Orbits, in one of vvhoſe foci the Sun is, and by a Radius from the Sun deſcribe equal Area's in equal Times, vvhich no other Lavv of a Circulating Fluid, but the Harmonical Circulation can Account for, vve muſt find out a Lavv for the Paracentrical Motion, that may make the Orbits Elliptick.