centre (in Wint. II. i. 101* the sense is perhaps architectural ‘temporary framework supporting a superstructure’)
1.
middle point of the earth MND. III. ii. 54,
Ham. II. ii. 159
“I will find Where truth
is hid, though it were hid indeed Within
the centre.”
2.
the earth, as the
supposed centre of the universe
Troil. I. iii. 85
“The heavens . . ., the
planets, and this ”
3.
the heart or soul,
taken as the centre of the body
Wint. I. ii. 139
“thy intention stabs the
centre,”
Rom. II. i. 2, Sonn. cxlvi. 1.
