Vertiginate

adj, verb

adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To turn around and around; to whirl.

    "c. 1810-1834?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Sherlock Yes; you'll say, that there should be three Persons, each of which is God, and yet but one God, is a contradiction: but what principle of natural reason does it contradict? Surely never did argument vertiginate more!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Turned around; giddy.

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"c. 1810-1834?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Sherlock Yes; you'll say, that there should be three Persons, each of which is God, and yet but one God, is a contradiction: but what principle of natural reason does it contradict? Surely never did argument vertiginate more!"

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