sphere

UK /sfɪə(ɹ)/ US /sfɪə(ɹ)/
noun 5verb 2

Definitions

noun

1

A surface in three dimensions consisting of all points equidistant from a center. .

2

An object which appears to be bounded by a sphere; a round object, a ball.

Of celestial bodies, first the sun, / A mighty sphere, he framed.

So your orientation changes a little bit but it sinks in that the world is a sphere, and you're going around it, sometimes under it, sideways, or over it.

3

The celestial sphere: the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.

Though cold and darkness longer hang somewhere, / Yet Phoebus equally lights all the Sphere.

Resistless rolls the illimitable sphere, / And one great circle forms the unmeasured year.

4

Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to ca

ſooner ſhall the Sun fall from his Spheare, Than Tamburlaine be ſlaine or ouercome.

It is more simplicitie to teach our children[…][t]he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare, before their owne.

5

An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.

verb

1

To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.

The glorious planet Sol / In noble eminence enthroned and sphered / Amidst the other.

Sphere all your lights around, above; ⁠Sleep, gentle heavens, before the prow; ⁠Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now, My friend, the brother of my love.

2

To make round or spherical; to perfect.

sphered Whole

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