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VEBTIGINOUSLY.
visions about their eyes, vertiginous, apt to tremble. 1653
Jkh. Taylor Serm^/or Kco^i.xix. 233 They grew vertigin*
ous and fell from the battlements of heaven. 1695 Woodward
Nat. Hist. Earth iv. 206 The former of these [damps].,
makes the Workmen faint, and vertiginous. 1707 Reflex,
upon Ridicule 136 The Head turns and grows vertiginous,
1787 Best Atfgiing (ed. 2) 69 By these balls fishes are rendered
\-ertiginous, and as it were intoxicated. 1808 Med,
ymL XIX. 299 The ocular spectra of objects.. augment
the disturbance of the eyes, and thereby add to the confusion
of the vertiginous person. iBaa-y Good Study Med.
(1829) I. 170, I have never been able to raise it [the drug]
abo^'e seven grains without making the head stupid and
ventginous. 1906 G._ Tyrrell in Li/e (1912) II. xi. 260 At
first f was very \'ertiginous, but am slowly getting my nerves
in hand.
fig^. i6«4 [Scott] Vox Regis 41 The heighthof prosperitie
so amazeth the ej-es of men, as it makes them vertigmous.
1687 NoRRis Misc., Disc. Rom. xii. 3 § 19 If they can stand
there without growing vertiginous, .. they are still within
the Region of Humility.
b. J^. Giddy-minded ; unstable or unsettled in
opinions, etc. ; inconstant; apt to change quickly;
marked by inconstancy, instability, or rapid change.
Frequent in the 17th century.
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 209 This
vertiginous Vertumnus, whom Plato describes for an in-
artificial! disputant. 1631 Burton Anat. Mel, (ed. 4) i. lii.
I. ii 185 Inconstant they are in all their actions, vertiginous,
restlesse, vnapt to resolue of any businesse. x68x Mantom
Sertft. Ps.cxix. 20 Wks. 1872 VI. 190 Therefore take heed
of being given up to this vertiginous spirit, to be turned and
'tossed up and down with every wind of doctrine'. 1789
Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life ^ Writ. {1832) II. 66 As all
men and things are in the same vertiginous condition. 1841
DisRAEU Amen. Lit. {1859) II. 378 The sphere of publication
widened, in this vertiginous era. 1898 Bodley France
iiL v. 271 When one thinks of the vicissitudes of those
vertiginous days, it is not surprising that . . sons of the
Revolution [etc.].
2. Of the nature of, characterized by, vertigo.
1608 TopsELL Serpents 76 Sluggish dulness, a giddy and
vertiginous pace,, .are sure arguments that Bees are not in
good health. i6»o Venner Via Recta vii, 134 Fisticke
Nuts, .distemper the bloud, and being much eaten, oftentimes
procure the vertiginous euill. 1699 Evelyn Acetaria
(1729) 133 Mustard, .strengthening the Memory, expelling
Heaviness, preventing the Vertiginous Palsey. 1733 Cheyne
Eng. Malady iii. tv. (1734) 327, I was suddenly seiz'd with
a vertiginous Paroxj-sm. zSas-^ Good Study Med. (1829)
I. 460 That staggering or vertiginous disease which is provincially
known by the name of Dtint. 1854 Gilfillam
Beattie p. xvii, Beattie was troubled with a vertiginous complaint.
1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. IX. 183 He found that if he
closed his eyes the vertiginous feeling was mitigated. 1901
Brit. Med. JrnL No. 2092. Epit. Anc. Lit. 18 Vertiginous
attacks became troublesome at times.
/ig. i6»6 Ailesbury Passion Serm. 13 Their theory was
vertiginous, swom in the braine, there floating without
anchor, and was of no credit with the will. 1643 H. Mori;
Song 0/ Soul n. in. iii. 22 My strong- winged Muse feeble
to sfide Into false thoughts and dreams vertiginous.
3. Liable to cause vertigo or dizziness; inducing
giddiness. A\soJig.
1649 Jer. Tavlor Gt. Exemp. i. ix. 1^3 There . . the
station is least firm, the posture most uneasie, the prospect
vertiginous. 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 326 The
Dervis and other Santoons .. express their zeal by turning
round, . .and others I have seen in this vertiginous exercise
at the Cavalcades, a 1701 Maundrell Journ. yents. (1721)
95 After they had by these vertiginous circulations and
clamours tum'd their heads. 1865 W. Kay Crisis Hup/eldiana
78 If any one chooses to look further into this vertiginous
subject, he may examine [etc.]. 1874 Stevenson Ess,
Trav., Unpleasant Places (1005) 242 There is nothing
more vertiginous than a wind like this amons; the woods,
with all its sights and noises. 1899 Alldutt's Syst. Med,
vii. 796 It is generally necessary to avoid crowded rooms
and the vertiginous influence of the dance.
4. Of motion : Having the character of rotation
or revolution ; rotatory.
In some cases prob, implying the preceding sense.
1663 Baxter Div. Li/e 21$ The thoughts of earthly fleshly
things have power to delude men, and mislead them, and
hurry them about in a vertiginous motion. 1690 Leybourn
1
Curs. Math. 449 It is found to have a Vertiginous Motion
about its own Axis, lytz Blackmore Creation 251 So give
the air impression from above. It in a whirl vertiginous
would move. 1751 Johnsos Rambler No. 117 f 10 That
vertiginous motion, with which we are carried round by the
diurnal revolution of the earth. 1766 G. Canning Anti-
Lucretius IV. 323 We see, with whirl vertiginous, the Sun
From west to east around his axis run. 183a Nat. Philos.,
Eleciro-Magn. xii. % 257. 80 (L.U.K.), The peculiar kind of
movement.. which Dr. Wollaston attributed to the electro.
magnetic agent, and which he termed its vertiginous
motion. 1837 Carlvle Fr. Rev. i. iii. vii, It is the centre
whereon infinite contentions unite and clash. What new
universal vertiginous movement is this? 1883 Salmon in
Contemf. Rev. Oct 512 All the souls in hell and purgatory
..who, in the earth's vertiginous double motion, must roll
about like grains of coffee in a grocer's mill.
b. Of an axis : Revolving, rotating.
1680 Counterplots 6 Whirl'd about with perpetual agita.
tions upon the Vertiginous Axis of that Globe.
Hence Vertiffinously adv., giddily, dizzily.
1766 G. Canning A nti- Lucretius v. 368 Which, to the
centre of the cloud repair. And there.. With furious rage
vertiginously roll. 1868 Browning Ring Sf Bk. xi. 2365 The
smoothest safest of you all . . Will rock vertiginously m turn,
and reel. And, emulative, rush to death like me. 1886
SvMONDS Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VI I, ix. 45 A new
philosophy occupied his brain, vertiginously big with incoherent
births of modern thought.
Vertigiixousiiess, [f. prec. + -ness.] The
condition or state of being vertiginous; dizziness,
giddiness, Also^^.
150
1599 A.M. tr. Gahelhouers Bk. Physicke lift Applye it on
his Foreheade and on the Temples of the heade,..as long as
the vertiginousnes dureth and continueth. ci6a8 Donne
Serm. 658 It was a staggering,a vertiginousnesse, an ignorance.
1653 Jer. Taylor Sertn. i. xxi. 282 He that commits
sacriledge, is marked for a vertiginousnesse and changeable
fortune, a 1677 Barrow Serm. (1810) II. 416 We would all
climb into high places, not considering the precipices on
which they stand, nor the veriiginousness of our own brains.
1717 Bailey (vol. II), 6^/rf(^/«fw,.. Veriiginousness. 1846
Browning Lett. (1899) II. 528, 1 got up with the old vertiginousness,
or a little worse.
t Verti•giny. Obs. Also 5, 7 vertigine, 6-7
-inie. [a, L.
= Vertigo.
vertigine, abl. sing, of vertigo.']
^1400 Lan/ranc's Cirurg. 310 [It] is good for Jjc brayn
wit-innefori^ as for scotomia h vertigine. 1583 Stubbes
Atiat. Abus. Evjb, Y^ vertiginie, & instability of their
more than fantastical brains. 1605 B. Jonson Volpone 11. ii,
For the Vertigine, in the head,., a most soueraigne, and ap.
prooued remedy. 1608 Topsell Serpents 32 It induceth a
kinde of lieauines or drunkennesse in their head, with a
vertiginie [i658_vertiginy] or giddines.
t verti 'gious, rt. Obs, rare. = VkrtiginouS(2.
1623 CocKERAM, Vertigious, belonging to giddinesse. 1653
E. Chisenhale Cath. Hist. xv. 461 The nauseating juyce
..hath intoxicated them, making their Vertigious heads
turn after the Laterane Weather.cock. 1656 Blount,
Ii Vertigo (vautig^J, vsitai-gc, vsjtrgo). Also
7 vertego, -teego, virtigo, [L. vertigo a turning
or whirling round, giddiness, etc., f. vertire to turn.
Cf. F. and Sp. vertigo ;
gem. It. vertigine.
also F. veriige, Pg. verti-
The various modes of pronouncing t"bis word form the
subject of an elaborate note by Walker (1797), arguing in .
favour of that with the stress on the first syllable. The
fashionable pronunciation, however, appears to have been
(vajti'go), andthis alone is given by Smart {1836-40) as really
current, in spite of its divergence from English analogy.]
1. Path. A disordered condition in which the
person affected has a sensation of whirling, either
of external objects or of himself, and tends to lose
equilibrium and consciousness ; swimming in the
head ; giddiness, dizziness : a. Without article.
Sometimes applied to the staggers in horses or the sturdy
^
in sheep, and in quot. i6ig to a disease of hawks.
1528 Paynell Salerne^'s Rcgim. C iij b, Tlie heed ache
called vertigo:, whiche maketh a man to wene that the
world turneth. 1558 Bullein Gmit. Health Av, Apoplexia
and Vertigo will neuer fro th^e] starte, Untill the vitall
blode be killed in the harte. 1619 E. Bert Haivkes t/«^iii. V. 85 Adisease..of .some called Vertego,it isa
swimming of the braine. x68i tr. IViilis' Rem. Med. Wks.
Vocab., Vertigo. 1766 Beattie Let. in Life ^ Writ. {i8o6)
I. 93 Have I not headachs, like Pope ? vertigo, like Swift ?
1799 Med. yml. II. 119 The most common effects observed
from full doses, are vertigo, pain, or throbbing of the forehead.
1803 Ibid. X. 3^6 The general symptoms were pain
across the forehead with vertigo. 1840 Thackeray /'rt^Vj
Sk. Bk. C1872) 185 He felt as if attacked by vertigo, and his
thoughts whirled in his brain. 1875 Richardson Dis, Mod.
Li/fTi In those who have irregular circulation through the
brain, the tendency to giddiness and vertigo is more easily
developed.
b. With the.
1605 B. JoNSON Volpone iii. vii, Our drinke. . we will take,
vntill my roofe whirle round With the vertigo. 1631
Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 316 What a circular gesture
wee shall observe some use in their pace as if they were
troubled with the vertigo. 1725 Fam. Diet, s.v., The Vertigo
will sometimes seize upon those who look down from
an high Place. 1794 E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) 1. 335 Thus on
turning round on one foot, the vertigo continues for some
seconds of time after the person is fallen on the ground,
1827 Scott Let. in Lockhart (1838) VII. 29 Your letter has
given me the vertigo—my head turns round like a chariotwheel,
a 1883 Fagge Princ. ^ Pract. Med. (1B86) I. 702
The vertigo caused by derangement of the liver.
e. With fl, etc., and pi.
c 1620 Fletcher & Massinger Trag. Bamavelt v. ii,
Here's a Sword . . cures all rhumes, all Catharres, megroomes,
verteegoes. 1641 R. Brooke Eng. Episc. 5 Your Faulkiiers
seele a Pigeons eye . . to prevent a Vertigo. 1698 Frykr Acc.
P2. India ^ P. 129 The Mountains fenced with horrible
Gulphs, till strange Vertigoes prejudicate Pancy. 1731
Swift On his Death Wks. 1755 lU. n, 242 That old vertigo
in his head Will never leave him, till he's dead. 1789 W.
Buchan Dovt. Med. (1790) 39 These, .occasion palsies, vertigoes,
and other nervous affections, which often prove fatal.
1830 Galt Life Byron xlvii. 310 He complained ol frequent
vertigos, which made him feel as though he were intoxicated.
1895 Zangwill Master in. ii. 302 The fumes of expensive
wines and cigars gave him a momentary vertigo.
2.
fig. A disordered state of mind, or of things,
comparable to giddiness.
1634 Wither Etnbl. 231 Those uselesse and vaine temp'rall
things . . which if thereupon our hearts we set Make men and
women the vertigo get. 1661 Bagshaw in Baxter Acc. to
Inhabitants Kidderminster ^-j^ For him now to be suddenly
advanced so much beyond his Art, will run the poor man
into a dangerous Vertigo. 1702 Steele Funeral i. ii,
How dizzy a Place is this World you live in I All Human
Life's a mere Vertigo ! 170^— Taller No. 29 F 7 Absolute
Power is only a Vertigo in the Brain of Princes. 1810
Bentham Packing (1821) 187 The British Themis seems
little,, in danger of being healed of her habitual vertigo by
this one hand.^ 1831 Carlvle Sart. Res. u. v, There was
a certain delirious vertigo in the thought. 1875 Jevons
iI/i?MO'{i878)2i7Thatdangerouskind of intellectual vertigo
which often attacks writers on the currency.
3. The act of whirling round and round.
1853 pK QviNCEY A utobio^. Sk. Wks. I. 44 It was not a
humming-top that was required, but a peg-top. Now, this,
in order to keep up the vertigo at full stretch, . . needed to be j
whipped incessantly.
j
VERUMONTANUM,
t Ve-rtilage. Ods. [Irreg. f. L. vert-ere to turn.]
(See quots.)
1610 W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. vii. 14 Tillage
generally taken may comprehend all maner of husbandings
of grounds, but it is heere limited to Vertilage and Fertilage.
Vertilage consists in Deluage and FJciilage. 1688 R. Holme
Armoury iii. 333/2 Vertiliage, isa preparing of Ground to
receive its Seed by stirring, tossing or turning the same.
fVertingale, obs. var. Farthin-, Yarding ale.
1552 Huloet, Vertingale for agentilwoman, limns. 1869
Mrs. Palliser Lace \\. 79 Under the vertingale of black
taffety they wear a dozen or more petticoats.
Vertious, obs. form of Verjuice.
fVertoll, obs. var. Vardle, Vartiwell.
1552 Huloet, Vertoll of a dore, vertebra, vertibuluin.
Vertousnes, obs. f. Virtuousness.
Vertouyse, obs. Sc. f. Virtuous a,
Vertre, southern ME. var. Fir-tree.
+ Vert-sance. Obs. rare. [ad. OF. (also mod.
F.) sauce verte green sauce.] A sauce made principally
with green herbs. Cf. Green sauce.
1:1440 Anc. Cookery in Househ. Ord. (1790) 441 Vert
Sause. Take parsel, and myntes, and peletur [etc.]. c 1440
Protnp. Parv. 509/1 Vertesawce, or vergesawce, . . ^/Wo'tf
salsamentum. c 1450 Tivo Cookery Bks. 104 And sauce ii>
vergesauce \Douce MS. vert sauce]. 1483 Cath. Angl.
401/1 Vert sawse, viridis salsa.
Vertu, Vertu, varr. Virtu. Vertual, obs. f.
Virtual a. Vertue^less, obs. ff. Virtue(less.
Vertueet, obs. superl. of Virtuous a. Vertueux,
obs. var. Virtuous a. Vertugal, var.
Verdugal Obs. Vertuise, obs. Sc. f. Virtuous
a. Vertules(;se, obs. ff. Virtueless.
t Vertu'mnal, a. Obs. rare. [f. L. Vertumnus
(see next); by Adams falsely associated with
vcr spring, Ver j^.l] a. Vernal, b. Of or
pertaining to Vertumnus.
1622 T. Adams Firenopolis 182 Her smiles are more
reuiuing then the Vertnmnall Sunneshine. 1633 — Exp.
2 Peter iii. 8 We cannot, .keep back the cowslip to August,
nor the vertumnal flowers to autumn. 1705 N. Tate tr.
Co%vleys Plants C.'s Wks. 1711 III. 405 The Goddess her
Vertumnal Rites prepares.
+ Vertu 'innals, sb.pl. Obs.-" [ad. L. Vertumnal-ia
sb. pi., the festival of Vertumnus, f.
Verlumn-us god of the changing year.] (See quot.)
1656 Blount Glossogr. (citing Broughton), Vertumnals,
Feasts dedicated to, or Books treated [1674 treating] of the
god Vertumnus.
Vertuose, obs. f. Vjutuous. Vertuositie,
obs. f. Virtuosity. Vertuoso, obs. f. Vibtuoso.
Vertiious(ness, obs. forms of Virtuous(ness.
Vertuse, -tuyse, obs. Sc. ff. Virtuous a.
Vertw, obs. Sc. f. Virtue.
tVertwell. Obs.-^ [ad. OF. verteveiie-. see
Vartiwell.] = Vartel.
13.. Pari. Three Ages 23S Hchenntis thaym \sc. the
hawks] one honde.., Lowppes in thaire lesses thorowe
vertwells of siluere.
Verty, a. Sc Also 5 werty, 9 vertie, vairtie.
[Aphetic f. Averty a.] Attentive to business
; prudent, cautious, wide-awake, early, etc.
In enrly use coupled with wise.
1375 Bakbour Bruce xvin. 439 King Robert, .was Wis in
his deid and ek verty. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron.vwi. 3121 He
wes wys and rycht werty. 1456 Sir G. Have Laiv Arms
(S.T.S.) 115 It efferis wele to a constable to be wys and
verty, and wele avisit in all his dedis. 1804 Tarras Poems
2 Archie, fu' vertie, owre the moorlan' spangs Ilk strype and
stank; nae doubt he itchin langs To crack wi' San . 1825
Jamilson Snppl.^ Vairtie, early. Buchan.
Hence Ve'rtyness. rare~^.
1456 Sir G. Have Bk. Knighthood V^V%. (S.T.S.) II. 54
A man can , . mend ane evill fortune apperand be vertynas.se.
Veruel, obs. var. Varvel.
Vemlamian, a. rare. [f. L. Vemlami-um
St. Albans.] Performed by, emanating from,
Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam.
1671 R. BoHUN Windi^ From another of the Verulamian
experiments. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 406 The
discipline, .had brought the public to a temper well fitted for
the reception of the Verulamian doctrine.
t Verule, obs. f. Ferrule sb. and v,
C1S2S Berry EncycL Her. I. Gloss., Verules, or Ferrils,
several rings, one within another, which have the same
centre. Ibid., ^Veruled, or Ferriled,. .are terms used in
heraldry to express the ornamental rings round huntinghorns,
&c.
II Vernmonta num. ^Jiat, [f. L. veru spit
+ montdnum, neut. oi montdnus hilly.] (See quots.
1728 and 1831.)
1728 Chambers Cycl., Ve?-u-fnontaiium, in Anatomy,..
kind of little Valve, in the Place wliere the Ejaculatory
Ducts enter the Urethra.. .Its use is, to prevent the Urine,
in passing the Urethra, from getting in at those Ducts. 1771
Encycl. Brit. I. 2-j-^/i A small oblong oval eminence, .terminating
forward in a point, called caruncula or vcrumontanum.
1831 R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 817 Ihe inferior
median line ends posteriorly at an oblong, rounded prominence,
about an inch long, called the I'ernmontanum
{Caput Gallinagiitis), This prominence is formed by the
mucous membrane. . . Anteriorly, it becomes thin and end.s in
a point. x86o Sir H. Thompson Dis. _
of Prostate (1868) 16
Some minute vessels, chiefly venous, . . on
either side of the
verumontanum. 1876 Gross Dis. Bladder^ etc 557 The
sinus in front of the verumontanum.
Verunda, ,obs. form of Veranda.