He here introduced what was called a hypocycle, which, in fact, was nothing but a deferent not including the sun, round which the centre of the orbit revolved.
The ceremony of the letters and the deferent method of address and signature are never dropped in this most intimate of letter-writing.
Did it keep the fear at some courteous, deferent distance from the centre of that human heart, in the very act of the leap and lapse of mortality?
The man's tone was so earnest, and there was so deferent a look in his eyes, that the Princess recovered some of her courage.
Mealy Benoît had paid his score already, and Hogshead Geoffroy's deferent escort of friends was getting restless.
Mercury and Venus were supposed to revolve in their epicycles in their own periodic times and in the deferent round the earth in a year.
The major planets were supposed to revolve in the deferent round the earth in their own periodic times, and in their epicycles once in a year.
Such was the theory advanced by Copernicus: The earth moves in an epicycle, on a deferent whose centre is a little distance from the sun.
The eighth sphere had neither deferent nor epicycle but to it were attached the fixed stars.
The deferent of each planet was supposed to be traced as a great circle upon a transparent separate crystal sphere; and all of the crystal spheres revolved once a day around an axis passing through the poles of the heavens.
The circular orbit of each planet was called its "deferent" and upon the deferent moved, not the planet itself, but an imaginary planet, represented by a point.
The Chamberlain expressed deferent surprise at his Highness's idea, and sought the Magister.
Magister Knips remained standing in an attitude of deferent respect till the Sovereign had left the room, when he returned to his chair, and, without turning to the right or left, resumed his writing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deferent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
