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Dizzy vs Gyromancy - What's the difference?

dizzy | gyromancy |

As an adjective dizzy

is having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.

As a verb dizzy

is to make dizzy, to bewilder.

As a noun gyromancy is

divination where people walk on a circle of letters until dizzy, the letters they fall on are significant. Similar to Dervishing.

dizzy

English

Alternative forms

* dizzie (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.
    • I stood up too fast and felt dizzy .
  • * Drayton
    • Alas! his brain was dizzy .
  • Producing giddiness.
    • We climbed to a dizzy height.
  • * Macaulay
    • To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
    • ...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.
  • empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous
    • My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
  • * Milton
    • the dizzy multitude

    Derived terms

    * dizzily * dizziness * dizzyingly

    Verb

  • To make dizzy, to bewilder.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:
    • Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Dominic Fifield, work=The Guardian
    • , title= England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , passage=So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.}}

    gyromancy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gyromancye * giromancy * giromantie

    Noun

    (-)
  • Divination]] where people walk on a circle of letters until dizzy, the letters they fall on are significant. Similar to [[Whirling Dervishes, Dervishing.
  • Divination by whirling a coin on a circle of letters.

    • Quotations

    * 1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. *: By Giromancy , if thou shouldst turn round Circles, thou mightest assure thy self from me, that they would fall always on the wrong side. * 1868 Chambers's Encyc. V *: GYROMANCY ..was a method of divination by means of a circle, and was generally performed in the following manner: the soothsayer described a circle, and marked it all round with letters; then he commenced to walk round the circle, repeating his incantations, and at the places where he stopped the letters were carefully noted, and by the interpretation put upon these letters, the answer of the god was obtained. * 1953 Gaynor (ed.) Dict. Mysticism *: Gyromancy : Divination by having a person walk around a chalked circle until he collapses and observing the position of his body relative to the circle.