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Definition of Equilibrist
1. n. One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer.
Definition of Equilibrist
1. Noun. (archaic) a tightrope walker ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Equilibrist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equilibrist
Literary usage of Equilibrist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"equilibrist (from the Latin (equilibrium) ; one who keeps his balance, in unnatural
positions and hazardous movements. The equilibrist entertains the ..."
2. A Frenchman in America: Recollections of Men and Things by Max O'Rell (1891)
"... is nowhere as an equilibrist, compared to a gallant veteran who breakfasted
at my table, this morning. Among the different courses brought to him were ..."
3. Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Dugald Stewart (1859)
"When an equilibrist balances a rod upon his finger, ... The equilibrist, therefore,
must watch, in the very beginning, every inclination of the object from ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1830)
"equilibrist (from the Latin (equilibrium) ; one who keeps his balance, in unnatural
positions and hazardous movements. The equilibrist entertains the ..."
5. Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1828)
"Sometimes not only a single rod is bal- ir"'ed in this way by the equilibrist,
but two or three oa different parts of his body. When attempts of this last ..."
6. A Grammar of Logic and Intellectual Philosophy, on Didactic Principles by Alexander Jamieson (1837)
"The equilibrist, therefore, must watch, in the very beginning, every inclination
of the object ftom the proper position, in order to counteract this ..."
7. The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review by Richard Mackenzie Bacon (1820)
"The case of the equilibrist and rope-dancer already mentioned, is particularly
favourable ... The equilibrist, therefore, must watch, in the very beginning, ..."
8. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1900)
"In the present generation probably the most famous of all the equilibrist was
Blondin. This person, whose real name was Emile ..."
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