vorticose

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According to some observers, the concluding movements were vorticose.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles

But will not the admission of a vorticose motion of the ethereal medium, affect the aberration of light?

From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas

In the first phase, the undulations were marked by a dominant direction, but, towards the close of the second phase, there was no determinate direction, and the impression was again that of a vorticose shock.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles

He records the occurrence of the so-called vorticose shocks at several places, though he attributes them to another cause.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles

On this account, whatever might have been the cause of the earthquake, whether volcanic or electrical, the movement assumed every possible direction--vertical, horizontal, oscillatory, vorticose, and pulsatory; producing every variety of destruction.

From The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. by Anonymous