Adjective : homocentric rays.    From Dictionary.com. 

First, it applies to the fertilization of humans only, not other animals -- not a negligible consideration, but still a biased, that is, a homocentric one.    From Wordnik.com.  [ProLifeBlogs] Reference

Peuerbach is also noted for his great attempt to reconcile the opposing thoeries of the universe, the so-called homocentric speres of Eudoxus and Aristotle, with Ptolemy's epicyclic trains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

The only cosmos we know was viewed by Eudoxus as a nest of twenty-seven homocentric spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

"You mean the homocentric group that uses quotations from St. Michael of Siena for support?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rama Revisited]

It was just a question of time before the prevailing homocentric notion of the universe was to be irrevocably shattered by clearer awareness of the Others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rama Revisited]

I know this could be an unpopular suggestion for many as it does not incorporate the currently accepted homocentric assumption but it could be a start in the right direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature Again « Climate Audit] Reference

So that's a homocentric bureaucratic system going on and also perception within these districts and the people who are working this system is under blockage for this kind of effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 7, 2008] Reference

It was from a largely homocentric point of view that economists first began to label stocks of clean water and air, as well as forests, fisheries, and the ever evolving systems that support them – and us – as natural capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capital] Reference

Second is that the nature of this homocentric military regime is that the low-ranking bureaucrats, as well as middle-ranking bureaucrats and also all the way to the top, they do not perceive themselves as having the capacity and authority to make decision even to let those visas position quickly possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 7, 2008] Reference

Mad, I agree with you that homocentric thinking doesn't get anyone anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonkette » top] Reference

World and the Earth, and some of these homocentric spheres carried fixed or wandering stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

The view is not exclusive but all inclusive in search of happiness, not homocentric but holistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [VivekaJyoti] Reference

Delfino (1559) published small works in an endeavour to restore the system of homocentric spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

But Mr. Hornaday's reply is such a facer to him and his homocentric theory that he has to do something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference

Sadder still is being so egocentric, or homocentric, that a person can't imagine a world where people just die, like all other living things.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Hōd on the left; and Kether, Tephareth, Yesod, and Malakoth in the middle: and many hold that all the ten subsist in circles, one within the other, and all homocentric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

President Roosevelt and John Burroughs, in advancing such a view, are homocentric in the same fashion that the scholastics of earlier and darker centuries were homocentric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference

Eudoxus of Cnidus, Calippus, and Aristotle vied with one another in striving to advance this theory of homocentric spheres, its fundamental hypothesis being incorporated in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

In short, Mr. Burroughs's homocentric theory has been developed out of his homocentric ego, and by the misuse of language he strives to make the facts of life jibe with his theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Animals] Reference

In short, Mr. Burroughs's homocentric theory has been developed out of his homocentric ego, and by the misuse of language he strives to make the facts of life agree with his theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference

Your intelligence tells you that such a process is not abstract reasoning, and your homocentric thesis compels you to conclude that it can be only a mechanical, instinctive process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference

However, the astronomy of homocentric spheres could not explain all celestial phenomena, a considerable number of which showed that the wandering stars did not always remain at an equal distance from the Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Unfortunately our homocentric relationship with the natural, be it plants or wildlife is about to cost us big time as we have finally come to realize the gigantic toll the meat industry is taking on the planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference

A servile adoration of Peripateticism prompted many so-called philosophers to reject the Ptolemaic system, the only one which, at that time, could satisfy the legitimate exigencies of astronomers, and to readopt the hypothesis of homocentric spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Averroës, advanced a theory on planetary motion wherein he wished to account for the phenomena peculiar to the wandering stars, by compounding rotations of homocentric spheres; his treatise, which was more neo-Platonic than Peripatetic, seemed to be a Greek book altered, or else a simple plagiarism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Although directed by tendencies diametrically opposed to the true scientific spirit, the efforts made by Averroists to restore the astronomy of homocentric spheres were perhaps a stimulus to the progress of science, inasmuch as they accustomed physicists to the thought that the Ptolemaic system was not the only astronomical doctrine possible, or even the best that could be desired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

1291; astrologer to Frederick II) were the treatises of Aristotle and the "Theory of Planets", which Alpetragius had composed in accordance with the hypothesis of homocentric spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

The Advocate's editor is a sexist, misogynistic, two-spirit hating, racist, transphobic, homocentric, rich white man by on.    From Wordnik.com.  [10/23/2007] Reference