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Definition of Contorting
1. contort [v] - See also: contort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contorting
Literary usage of Contorting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Basic Outline of Universology: An Introduction to the Newly Discovered by Stephen Pearl Andrews (1872)
"The Serpentine is therefore the simplest abridged Symbol of this Dimension,
indicative of Undulating and contorting Movement of the body along the Median ..."
2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1876)
"A violent horizontal blow backwards, opposed by a resistance in a (lower plane,
causes obviously a contorting "couple" or twist to be generated, ..."
3. Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by James Donald, William Chambers (1878)
"... act of contorting-; a twisting of anything out of its natural position.
Contort, kon-tort', vt, io twist or turn violently; to writhe :—Pr.p. contorting ..."
4. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"The famous miniature trees, produced by clipping and contorting and often trained
into picturesque or ideal shapes, are largely of this species. ..."
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