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Webster 1913 Edition


Verticity

Ver-tic′i-ty

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
verticité
. See
Vertex
.]
The quality or power of turning; revolution; rotation.
[R.]
Locke.
I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the
verticity
of the loadstone.
Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition


Verticity

VERTIC'ITY

,
Noun.
[from vertex, supra.]
1.
The power of turning; revolution; rotation.
2.
That property of the lodestone by which it turns to some particular point.
The attraction of the magnet was known long before its verticity.