vorticose

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The shock which agitated the building is described as having been horizontal and vorticose.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

But will not the admission of a vorticose motion of the ethereal medium, affect the aberration of light?

From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas

According to some observers, the concluding movements were vorticose.

From A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Davison, Charles

On this account, whatever might have been the cause of the earthquake, whether volcanic or electrical, the movement assumed every possible direction--vertical, horizontal, oscillatory, vorticose, and pulsatory; producing every variety of destruction.

From The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. by Anonymous

The Academicians relate that in some of the cities of Calabria effects were produced seeming to indicate a whirling or vorticose movement.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir