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ecˈcentrically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an eccentric direction or manner.
1. Not concentrically; not symmetrically with respect to the centre.
a1687Petty Pol. Arith. (1690) 93 A Wheel..excentrically hung neither moves so easily nor performs its work so truely. 1703Brit. Apollo, Supern. Paper No. 1, 2/1 [The Moon] moves Eccentrically with Respect to Us. 1849–52Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1206/1 The liver cells in Boltenia are..arranged in eccentrically radiated groups. 1875T. Laslett Timber Trees 8 The pith is excentrically placed.
2. Out of one's proper sphere; irregularly; in mod. use, oddly, whimsically, strangely.
1678Yng. Man's Call. 55 Prudence is herein very sollicitous..That nothing be done excentrically. 1737Common Sense 10 Sept., Women..are confined within the narrow Limits of Domestic Offices, and when they stray beyond them, they move excentrically, and consequently without Grace. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. II. 4 The skylight eccentrically patched like a broken head. |