a. Also 6 spherie, 7 spheary, 9 spherey. [f. SPHERE sb.]
1. Of or pertaining to, connected with, the spheres or heavenly bodies; sphere-like.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., II. ii. 99. What wicked and dissembling glasse of mine, Made me compare with Hermias sphery eyne?
1634. Milton, Comus, 1021. Love vertue,… She can teach ye how to clime Higher then the Spheary chime.
1816. Keats, Ep. to Bro. George, 4. In seasons when I’ve thought No spherey strains by me could e’er be caught From the blue dome. Ibid. (1818), Endym., III. 33. A thousand Powers … Hold sphery sessions for a season due.
1867. Jean Ingelow, Christ’s Resurr., xxii. Hurrying down the sphery way Night flies.
1882. Symonds, Animi Figura, 121. Discord that jars upon the sphery tune.
2. Having the form of a sphere. Also Comb.
1600. J. Lane, Tom Tel-troth, 183. Astronomie … hath lost By cruell fate her starre-embroidred coate; Her spherie globe in dangers seas is tost, And in mishap her instruments doe floate.
1871. B. Taylor, Faust, III. (1886), 274. This way, ye gloomy, sphery-bodied, monster throng [or phantoms]!
