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Vertiginous adj.

Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, a vertiginous motion. "Some vertiginous whirl of fortune."

Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. "They (the angels) grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven."

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Etymology of 'Vertiginous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vertiginous" Quotes from Famous Books

... train that was really starting. Two great covered carriages, windowless, pushed by a locomotive with a short, corpulent chimney, in shape like a saucepan, a monstrous insect, clinging to the mountain and clambering, breathless up its vertiginous slopes. ...

— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet

... discovered, was this: he would consider himself in the light of a humming top; he would make an apparatus (and he made it) for having himself launched, like a top, upon the ceiling, and regularly spun. Then the vertiginous motion of the human top would overpower the force of gravitation. He should, of course, spin upon his own axis, and sleep upon his own axis—perhaps he might even dream upon it; and he laughed at "those scoundrels, the flies," that never improved in their pretended art, ...

— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

... poor frivolous girl, but I was very close to him at the time. That's all my little story—if it should interest you at all." She measured every beat of her wing, she knew how high she was going and paused only when it was quite vertiginous. Here she hung a moment as in the glare of the upper blue; which was but the glare—what else could it be?—of the vast and magnificent attention of both her auditors, hushed, on their side, in the splendor she emitted. ...

— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various