semicircularly

English

Etymology

semicircular +‎ -ly

Adverb

semicircularly (comparative more semicircularly, superlative most semicircularly)

  1. Done in a semicircular manner.
    • 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth‎:
      He whirled and came back open-mouthed, and the little boy and big basket had to whisk semicircularly not to be run down, for de minimis non curat Medicina-even when not in a rage.
    • 1845, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Night and Morning, Complete‎:
      THOMSON'S Castle of Indolence: Explanatory Verse to Canto II. In a popular and respectable, but not very fashionable quartier in Paris, and in the tolerably broad and effective locale of the Rue, there might be seen, at the time I now treat of, a curious-looking building, that jutted out semicircularly from the neighbouring shops, with plaster pilasters and compo ornaments.
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