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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

polary en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpoʊləɹi/

Etymology

From pole + -ary.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Tending towards a pole.
    • And if the whole earth were violently removed, yet would it not forego its primitive points, nor pitch in the east or west, but return unto its polary position again. 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

Deriveds

impolarily · polarily

Relateds

polarity · polar

Synonyms

polewards · poleward