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ro·ta·to·ry

(rō′tə-tôr′ē)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, causing, or characterized by rotation: a rotatory muscle.

2. Occurring or proceeding in alternation or succession.

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rotatory

(ˈrəʊtətərɪ; -trɪ) or less commonly

rotative

adj

of, relating to, possessing, or causing rotation

ˈrotatively adv

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ro•ta•to•ry

(ˈroʊ təˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i)

adj.

1. pertaining to, of the nature of, or causing rotation: rotatory motion.

2. rotating, as an object.

3. passing or following in rotation or succession.

[1745–55; < New Latin rotātōrius= Latin rotā(re) (see rotate¹) + -tōrius -tory¹]

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Adj.

rotatory - of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn

revolutionary

Translations

коловратный коловращательный

rotatory

[rəʊˈteɪtərɪ] ADJ → rotativo

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rotatory

adj

→ rotierend; rotatory motion → Drehbewegung f

schedule → turnusmäßig; cultivation → abwechselnd

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With a shock he became aware of me, and was severely visited as before; but this time his motion was rotatory, and he staggered round and round me with knees more afflicted, and with uplifted hands as if beseeching for mercy.

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That night, at the close of a stormy twilight and under a strong west wind that followed the breaking of the frost, Leonard Crane was wending his way in a wild rotatory walk round and round the high, continuous wall that inclosed the little wood.

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Even a lazy man, who does nothing but make debts, has time to marry a widow who pays them; a priest finds time to become a bishop "in partibus." A sober, intelligent young fellow, who begins with a small capital as a money-changer, soon buys a share in a broker's business; and, to go even lower, a petty clerk becomes a notary, a rag-picker lays by two or three thousand francs a year, and the poorest workmen often become manufacturers; whereas, in the rotatory movement of this present civilization, which mistakes perpetual division and redivision for progress, an unhappy civil service clerk, like Chazelle for instance, is forced to dine for twenty-two sous a meal, struggles with his tailor and bootmaker, gets into debt, and is an absolute nothing; worse than that, he becomes an idiot!

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