What is "vorticial"

Usage examples of "vorticial".

It springs, instantly, from a superficial observation of the cyclic and seemingly gyrating or vorticial movements of those individual portions of the Universe which come most immediately and most closely under our observation.

Being, on the contrary, always suggested, as I say, by the vorticial movements about centres, a reason for it, also--a cause for the ingathering of all the orbs into one, imagined to be already existing--was naturally sought in the same direction, among these cyclic movements themselves.