vertic

vertic (not comparable)

1. (poetic) vertical, extreme.
   • 1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, Gratitude, page 21:

     But should you, smit with terror, cast
     Your infant foliage on the blast,
     Or faint beneath the vertic heat,
     Or shrink when wintry tempests beat,
     There is a plant of constant bloom,
     And it shall deck this lowly tomb,...