Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
globose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Spherical.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
globose .
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Examples
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_ This portion of the fibrous membrane is enlarged, globous or flattened, irregularly thinned, particularly at the periphery, where it may be as thin as tissue paper, nebulous because of the stretching of its fibers principally, but in some degree (differing in different cases) to edema of the epithelial layer.
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The Spirits answered, That there were no more Atheists then what Cabbalists make. she asked them further, Whether Spirits were of a globous or round Figure?
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 1668
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646: Then all this globous Earth in Plain outspred,
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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