vertic

English

Adjective

vertic (not comparable)

1. (poetic) Vertical; hence specifically radiating from above.
   • 1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, Gratitude, page 21:

     But should you, smit with terror, cast
     Your infant foliage on the blast,
     Or faint beneath the vertic heat,
     Or shrink when wintry tempests beat,
     There is a plant of constant bloom,
     And it shall deck this lowly tomb,...

   • 1887, George A. Young, “Bob Bangyoursoul’s Lecture on Nothing and How to Philosophically Wear it in Warm Weather”, in Whatever Is, Was […], page 341:

     Land of the sun! beneath whose vertic rays
     The lion crouches, and the tiger plays

   • 1907, William Clark Russell, The Turnpike Sailor […], page 67:

     No shelter from the vertic sun, no cavern for a home.

Further reading

• “vertic, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.