a. [f. SYMMETRY + -IC, after geometric. Cf. F. symétrique, † symmetrique (1529).] = SYMMETRICAL.

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1796.  Burney, Mem. Metastasio, II. 332. The air should be phrased and symmetric.

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1816.  Tuckey, Narr. Exped. R. Zaire, iii. (1818), 108. The faces of many of the women were by no means unprepossessing, and their forms extremely symmetric.

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1853.  Sylvester, in Phil. Trans., CXLIII. 434. Calculating the symmetric functions as a function only of x [etc.].

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1854.  Cayley, Math. Papers, II. 233. The covariant may in the former case be called a symmetric covariant, and in the latter case a skew covariant.

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1860.  Tyndall, Glac., II. xxix. 403. The ripples from the two sides form a pair of symmetric curves.

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1871.  Browning, Balaust., 1656. While still one’s heart, in time and tune, Paced after that symmetric step of Death.

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1885.  Burton, Arab. Nts. (1887), III. 12. Perfect in beauty and loveliness and stature and symmetric grace.

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