Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Turning round; rotatory; revolving: said of the paintings of a panorama.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Turning around; rotatory; revolving.
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- adjective dated
Turning around;rotatory ;revolving .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I step on board -- the signal is given for starting -- the lofty and crimson-peaked Bloxberg -- the vine-clad hill that produces the fiery Ofener wine, and the long and graceful quay, form, as it were, a fine peristrephic panorama, as the vessel wheels round, and, prow downwards, commences her voyage for the vast and curious East, while the Danubian tourist bids a dizzy farewell to this last snug little centre of European civilization.
Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842
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In short, this grand voyage is merely a peristrephic panorama of miseries, which if they survive, say they, it will be happy for them. ”
The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862
reesetee commented on the word peristrephic
revolving or turning around
February 19, 2007