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Definition of "sphery" []

  • Of or relating to the celestial spheres. (adjective)
  • Resembling a celestial body. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sphery" in a sentence
  • "But although it is difficult to identify the sphery figure of the judge with the slim consumptive preacher, and still more difficult to light up with pensive benevolence the convivial countenance in which official gravity and constitutional gruffiness have only yielded to good cheer; yet, it would appear, that for some of his mental features the divine was indebted to his learned ancestor."
  • "She can teach you how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her."
  • "Would flood, dissolve the sphery frame; 'twixt whom"
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