a. Obs. [f. L. vortici-, vortex: see VORTEX and -IAN.] Of or belonging to the theory of a vortex or vortices.
a. 1721. Keill, Maupertuis’ Diss. (1734), 23. This is all one of the greatest Men of the Age could say in Defence of the Vortician System. Ibid., 27.
