ROTUNDANT ADJ. circular, round ...1861 rare NOUN a round thing ...1661 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from rotund (adj. round, orbicular) + -ant FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1661 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...He is a good anatomist to scrue into the very center of a loaf, and to pry into the joynt of separation. A good surveyour only, he measures not by the chaine nor the quadrant, no, by the retundant rather, i.e. the jugg..." From: Confused Characters of Conceited Coxcombs, or, A Dish of Traitorous Tyrants - K.W. NOTE: Dictionaries only show 'rotundant' as being a noun. However, there are examples of it being used as an adjective (circular, round), as shown in the following example. "...a third lugged a looking glass under his arm, a fourth minced in Broadway style, enveloped in a rotundant hoop skirt, and so on, each of the squad carrying off a trophy..." From: The Iowa First: Letters from the War - Franc Bangs Wilkie, 1861
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