"rotatory" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1808, John Barclay, The Muscular Motions of the Human Body, →OCLC, page 396:",
          "text": "It is also obvious, and proved by experiment, that the rotatory motions observed in the hand proceed from the rotatory motions of the radius.",
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        "Alternative form of rotational"
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          "ref": "1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "unconnected, rotatory, biennial national assemblies",
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        "alternate or successive"
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        "(obsolete) alternate or successive"
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  "word": "rotatory"
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      "word": "optical rotatory dispersion"
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      "word": "rotatory nystagmus"
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      "word": "rotatory power"
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