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VEBTIBLENESS.<br />

that God Ajmtghty should annihilate the Individuals of this<br />

middle vertible Order, as you call it, as soon as they lapse<br />

into Sin?<br />

Hence t VeTtibleness, ' aptness or easiness to<br />

turn' (Bailey, vol. II, 172-). Obs.—°<br />

Ve'rtic, a. poet. Also 7 vertiok. [Irregular<br />

shortening of next, after Irojiii:, etc.] Vertical, esp.<br />

of the sun.<br />

1607 Barksted ;l//rrAa (1876) 51 Thus much the Goddesse<br />

of the floods doth deign to change thy shape, into a vertick<br />

flower. 176J Falconer Shi/^ur. 1. 745 While Phcebus down<br />

the vertic.circle glides, a 1769 — Occ, Elegy ix, Unfelt by<br />

you the vertic sun may glow. 1800 T. Sanderson Orig.<br />

Pmiiu 9 Where vertic suns, that torrid fervour pour. Check<br />

the grove's music and the vernal flow'r. 1876 J. Ellis<br />

Caesar in Egypt 79 Their sacred Well, One day illumined<br />

by the vertic Sun.<br />

Vertical (vs-Jtikal), a. and sb. Also 6-7 verticalL<br />

[a. F. vertical (1545,= Sp., Pg. vertical,<br />

It. verticaW), or ad. late L. verticdlis (Quicherat),<br />

f. vertic-, stem of vertex Vertex.]<br />

A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to, placed or situated<br />

at, p.issing through, the vertex or zenith<br />

occupying a position in the heavens directly overhead<br />

or above a given place or point.<br />

fa. Vertical point, =^\^v.tS7i 2. Also ^^., the<br />

culminating or highest point, the point of greatest<br />

development or perfection (freq. in the 1 7thc.). Obs.<br />

"SS9 W. Cunningham Cosmogr. Gtasse 16 Leuell with th'<br />

earth, and his verticall point, in the forsaid Equinoctial.<br />

163a Peacham CompLGentL ix. (1906) 61 Latitude is the<br />

distance of the Meridian, beiweene the verticall point (or<br />

pole of the Horizon) and the j^uinoctiall. 1653 W. Ramesev<br />

Astral. Resiftred I. viii. 15 Those that live further North<br />

are of stronger body, . . because their vertigal [sic] point<br />

being far removed from the Suns course, they more abound<br />

in cold and moisture. 1715 tr. Gregory^s Astron. (1726)<br />

I. 368 Let XBL be a Vertical Circle, X>the Zenith, (for the<br />

Vertical point may be consider'd as mov'd in regard of the<br />

Ecliptic unmov'd). X7a8 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Point, The<br />

Zenith and Nadir are the Vertical Points.<br />

/ig. 161X Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii, 103 Such successe,<br />

as well declared it was Gods will . . , that the English name<br />

should now be brought to the verticall poynt thereof without<br />

any thing being able to resist it 1616 T. H. Canssin's<br />

Holy Court 363 Saint Ireneus.,calleth Charity.. the top,<br />

and verticall point of all venues, guifts, and fauours of God.<br />

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