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spher-

  1. variant of sphero- before a vowel.


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Spher′ic, -al, pertaining to, or like, a sphere.—n.

Spher′ūle, a little sphere; Spher′ūlite, a radiating spherical group of minute acicular crystals common in silicious volcanic rocks.—adjs.

Oblate′ness, flatness at the poles; Oblate′-spher′oid, a spherical body flattened at the poles.

The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order: And, therefore, is the glorious planet, Sol, In nobler eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad: But, when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents? what mutiny?

But bring not near the solemn corse a type of human seeming, Lay only dust's stern verity upon the dust undreaming: And while the calm perpetual stars shall look upon it solely, Her spher�d soul shall look on them with eyes more bright and holy.

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