Dictionary

orbical en · ADJ

Etymology

From orb + -ical.

Meanings

1. Synonym of orbicular.
   • To achieve an occult or orbical balance, an asymmetrical composition must take into account the visual weight or force of each of its elements and employ the principle of leverage in their arrangement. 1987, Frank Ching, Interior Design Illustrated, page 144:
   • And there are questions respecting this stellar universe which still puzzle the most profound: gravitation, chemical affinity, polarity, the number and distances of some of the celestial bodies; why they are just so orbical, elliptical, or erratic; how many are inhabited, and by what forms of life and what degrees of intelligence? 1870 October, James Manning Sherwood, “Chance”, in Hours at Home: a Popular Monthly of Instruction and Recreation, volume 11, page 523:
   • This superimposed argon exerted throughout an unimaginable rigorous pressure over the whole orbical nebula, translative to a sphere of petrified ice and sundry ice ages following relentlessly one another. 1953, Philip Warsaw, Genesis, Mother of Sciences: An Exposition, page 37:
   • His features were orbical — round eyes, round nose, round cheekbones. 2009, James Scott Bell, No Legal Grounds, →ISBN, page 32:

Forms

Synonyms

orbicular