adv. Also 6 sphærically. [f. SPHERICAL a. + -LY2.] In a spherical manner; in the form, after the fashion, of a sphere.
1592. T. Digges, Descr. Cœlest. Orbs, To Rdr., in L. Digges, Prognost., M j. The Sunne … giueth lawes of motion to the rest [of the spheres], sphærically dispersing his glorious beames of light through all this sacred Cœlestiall Temple.
a. 1639. Wotton, in Reliq. (1651), 215. And it [sc. the circle] seemes, besides, to have the approbation of Nature…: For birds do build their nests Spherically.
1690. Leybourn, Curs. Math., 449. It may be concluded … that it [Venus] is Spherical, because it is Spherically illuminated.
1882. Vines, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 423. The projection … swells up spherically at once.
