† roˈtound, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. It. rotondo or L. rotund-us: see rotund a.]
Round.
| 1433 Lydg. S. Edmund iii. 1447 Out off a chapel, that callyd was rotounde They took the martir. c 1440 Stacyons of Rome 745 At seynt mary Rotounde [v.r. þe Rounde] there is a chyrche fayre I-founde. 1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. (Percy Soc.) 23 His circled panch, is barrell-like, rotound Like earths vast concaves hollow and profound. |