verticity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VERTIC'ITY, noun [from vertex, supra.] 1. The power of turning; revolution; rotation. 2. That property of the lodestone by which it turns to some particular point. The attraction of the magnet was known long before its verticity
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