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Verticality. World English Historical Dictionary

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Verticality. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Verticality [f. VERTICAL a. + -ITY. Cf. F. verticalité, It. verticalità.]

1   1.  The fact on the part of the sun or other celestial body of being at the vertex or zenith.

2 1570.  J. Dee, Math. Pref., 23. To consider … Sterres in their Longitudes, Latitudes, Declinations, and Verticalitie.

3 1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. xi. 284. For unto them the Sunne is verticall twice a year, making two distinct Summers in the different points of verticality.

4 1656.  W. D., trans., Comenius’s Gate Lang. Unl., § 557. In the Torrid [Zone], by reason of the perpetual verticality of the Sun, there are most vehement heats.

5 1867.  E. B. Denison, Astronomy without Mathematics, i. 37. The heat received anywhere depends on the directness of the sun’s rays, or its apparent verticality overhead.

6   2.  The condition or quality of being vertical or perpendicular; vertical position; perpendicularity.

7 1799.  Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 283. Their [i.e., argillites] verticality arising only from the drain of water.

8 1833.  Lyell, Princ. Geol., III. 318. The verticality of the strata in the Isles of Wight and Purbeck.

9 1856.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., IV. V. xvi. § 6. Precipices which produce on the imagination the effect of verticality.

10 1884.  G. M. Dawson, in Handbk. Dom. Canada, 325. Good sections of … Cretaceous rocks … become folded together and lie at all angles up to verticality.

11   b.  Of buildings, or architecture.

12 1843.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., VI. 99/1. The verticality which is designed and usually conveyed by the orders he communicated to his buildings by rustic quoins.

13 1860.  Cockburn Muir, Pagan or Christian? 61. The first and most striking feature [of the architecture of the 12th and 13th c.] is the Verticality of composition, as directly opposed to the Horizontality of all anterior structural modes.

14 a. 1890.  Lightfoot, Hist. Ess., iii. (1895), 146. The leading conception of Gothic architecture,… I mean its verticality, as contrasted with the horizontal lines of the Greek.

15   c.  In weakened sense: Erectness, uprightness.

16 1838.  Fraser’s Mag., XVII. 687. She walked … in unswerving verticality.

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