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Vertiginous adj.

Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, a vertiginous motion. "Some vertiginous whirl of fortune."

Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. "They (the angels) grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven."

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Etymology of 'Vertiginous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vertiginous" Quotes from Famous Books

... approaching; now upon the platform; my bearers were striding closely along the side; I leaned far out—a giddiness seized me! I gazed down into depth upon vertiginous depth; an abyss indeed—an abyss dropping to world's base like that in which the Babylonians believed writhed Talaat, the serpent mother of Chaos; a pit that struck down into ...

— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt

... unconsciousness the soul of Mychowski struggled up into thin light. He fought with bands of villainous appearing men holding tuning forks; he was rolled down terrific gulfs a-top of pianos; while accompanying him in his vertiginous flight were other pianos, square, upright and grand; pianos of sinister and menacing expression; pianos with cruel grinning teeth; pianos of obsolete and anonymous shapes; pianos that leered at him, sneered at him with screaming dissonances. ...

— Melomaniacs • James Huneker

... aged 37. Admitted to the Government Hospital for the Insane, March 8, 1909. Maternal grandfather died suddenly from unknown cause. Was a race-track operator. Father alcoholic. Mother suffered from vertiginous attacks. There were twenty-one children in the family, fifteen of whom died in infancy. One brother died of brain tumor. One sister is neurotic; her eight year old son suffers from congenital heart disease. Patient was born in Manchester, England. He was the ...

— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck

... Bruehl Terrace, plans for the next dance. Jim spread it on thick, and the dutiful, docile Elsa was swept along with the rest, although with a reserve in evocation as became the modesty of a maiden who was manifestly the pivotal center of all this vertiginous attraction and activity. The Buchers suddenly evinced a great and favorable curiosity about America. Their attitude toward it was revolutionized. They plied Gard with questions. What was living like there? It must be most desirable. Gard came across ...

— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry

... John Evelyn in his Acetaria, "Mustard, especially in young seedling plants, is of incomparable effect to quicken and revive the spirits, strengthening the memory, expelling heaviness, preventing the vertiginous palsy, and a laudable cephalic, besides being an approved antiscorbutic." He tells further that the Italians, in making Mustard as a condiment, mingle lemon and orange peel with the (black) seeds. "In the composition of a ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

Words linked to "Vertiginous" : vertigo, dizzy, woozy, ill, giddy