circumgyration

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

To these movements of the eyes, of which he supposes the observer to be inconscious, Dr. Wells ascribes the apparent circumgyration of objects on ceasing to revolve.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

But this rolling of the eyes, after revolving till we become vertiginous, cannot cause the apparent circumgyration of objects, in a direction contrary to that in which we have been revolving, for the following reasons.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

In the vertigo from circumgyration the irritative motions of vision are increased; which is evinced from the pleasure that children receive on being rocked in a cradle, or by swinging on a rope.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The ingenious and learned M. Sauvage has mentioned other theories to account for the apparent circumgyration of objects in vertiginous people.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus