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† diaˈgonial, a. and n. Obs.
[f. Gr. διαγώνιος diagonal + -al1.]
= diagonal; also diagonally opposite; fig. diametrically opposed. Hence † diaˈgonially adv.
1624Wotton Archit. (1672) 41 The Diagonial or over⁓thwart Line, from Angle to Angle, of the said Square. 1643Milton Divorce ii. iii. (1851) 64 Both diagonial contraries. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Epid. iii. v. 115 The shortnesse being affixed unto the legs of one side, which might have been more tolerably placed upon the thwart or Diagoniall movers. Ibid. 190 Which..stands a thwart or diagonially unto the other. 1668H. More Div. Dial. i. xx. (1713) 44 A Quadrate whose Diagonial is commensurate to one of the Sides is a plain Contradiction. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 728 The diameter or diagonial of a square. |