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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ver·tig·i·nous a.
 1. Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, a vertiginous motion.
    Some vertiginous whirl of fortune.   --De Quincey.
 2. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
    They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven.   --Jer. Taylor.
 -- Ver*tig*i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ver*tig*i*nous*ness, n.
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