- a variation of spherical.
spheric
Example Sentences
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The ripe human ovum or germ cell is a spheric cell, about 0.2 mm. in diameter, consisting of granular protoplasm, in which lies a nucleus which contains the germinal spot.
From The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene by Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith
When thrilling from His hand along Its lustrous path with spheric song The earth was deathless, sorrowless.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
So in some village-barn, or festive hall The spheric lens illumes the whiten'd wall; 140 O'er the bright field successive figures fleet, And motley shadows dance along the sheet.—
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Erasmus Darwin
They played And sang as on Creation's morn When spheric harmony was born.
From Shapes of Clay by Ambrose Bierce
I, for my part, felt nothing but regret that the spheric smoothness of his universe should be disfigured by the extrusion even of such inconsiderable particles as ourselves.
From A Passionate Pilgrim by Henry James
