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† obliˈquation Obs.
[ad. L. oblīquātiōn-em, n. of action f. oblīquāre: see prec.]
A bending aside or in an oblique direction; a twisting awry.
a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 394 That some such obliquation of Religion hath hap'ned. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 56 The right and transverse fibres are decussated by the oblick fibres, and so must frame a Reticulate and Quincuncial Figure by their Obliquations. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 109 Obliquations or crooked ways. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius xi. 271, I..passed through the crowd..with a gradual obliquation of my body. |