Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of an orb; round; circular; orbicular.
- Filling the circumference of a circle; rounded; hence, rounded out; perfect; complete.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of an orb; round.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the
form of anorb ;round ;spherical .
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Examples
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And, finally, she had great, blazing black eyes -- the half-caste eye, round, full-orbed, and sensuous, which marks the collision of the dark races with the light.
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Rather, we should stop treating young adults like children, we should throw out this artificial and ill-conceived concept of "teenager," we should teach a full-orbed concept of chastity, and we should encourage younger marriages.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Rather, we should stop treating young adults like children, we should throw out this artificial and ill-conceived concept of "teenager," we should teach a full-orbed concept of chastity, and we should encourage younger marriages.
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Cross-cultural Good News bearers must find mechanisms by which they can penetrate social networks and make a fully-orbed Gospel proclamation, in word and deed.
Unleashing the Brazilian Evangelical Missionary Force through a Business as Mission model 2007
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He looked up at June and Miriam on the patio, orbed in a bubble of candlelight; he could hardly see them through the haziness of his vision.
Naked 2009
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“Those over there need to be measured,” the orbed one said, pointing to a pile of wood fresh from the lumberyard.
Some Assembly Required Lynn Kiele Bonasia 2008
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You point each random rule of life, till one and all diverge like rays from one full – orbed philosophy. —
Peer Gynt 2008
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You point each random rule of life, till one and all diverge like rays from one full – orbed philosophy. —
Peer Gynt 2008
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And they were surnamed Cyclopes (Orb-eyed) because one orbed eye was set in their foreheads.
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Binds not a cincture smooth her bosom's orbed emotion.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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