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obliquity|əˈblɪkwɪtɪ|
[a. F. obliquité (Oresme 14th c.), ad. L. oblīquitāt-em, n. of quality f. oblīqu-us: see oblique and -ity.]
1. The quality of being oblique; inclination at other than a right angle to any straight line or plane; degree or extent of such inclination.
obliquity of the ecliptic, the inclination of the plane of the ecliptic to that of the equator.
1551Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 248 A thyrde diuersitye is..the obliquitie of the Horizonte. 1625N. Carpenter Geog. Del. i. v. (1635) 114 By reason of the obliquity of the Eclipticke line. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 132 Several Sphears..Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities. 1739C. Labelye Short Acc. Piers Westm. Bridge 3 The Stream of the Tide..will pass thro' the Arches without any sensible Obliquity. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xv. 161 The rays undergo no alteration, because they have no obliquity of incidence. 1871Darwin Desc. Man II. xix. 344 The obliquity of the eye, which is proper to the Chinese and Japanese, is exaggerated in their pictures.
b. Bot. Of a leaf: Inequilateral quality.
1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 152 Observe the obliquity of the base of the leaf-blade, characteristic of the Lime.
2. fig. Divergence from moral rectitude, sound thinking, or right practice; moral or mental perversity or aberration; an instance of this, a delinquency, a fault, an error.
c1422Hoccleve Jonathas Moral, By the ryng þat is rownd We shul vndirstande feith which is rownd, withouten obliquitee or crookidnesse. 1551Cranmer Answ. Gardiner i. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 19 Your book is so full of crafts, sleights, shifts, obliquities, and manifest untruths. 1627Donne Serm. xxviii. 283 The perversnesse and obliquity of my will. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy I. iii, A most unaccountable obliquity, (as he call'd it) in my manner of setting up my top, and justifying the principles upon which I had done it. 1844Gladstone Glean. V. xxxvi. 109 Mr. Ward evinces the same thorough one-sidedness and obliquity of judgment.
†3. Deviation from any rule or order. rare.
1646H. Lawrence Comm. Angels 87 Let us, therefore,..learne the rule from the obliquity, as well as the obliquity from the rule. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 127 ⁋3 Far the greater part..deviate at first into slight obliquities.
†4. Deviation from directness in action, conduct, or speech; a way or method that is not direct or straightforward. Obs.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xii. §6 (1622) 135 We may behold, euen in the Atheists, by a kinde of obliquity, diuers manifest foote-stepps, and acknowledgments of a Diuinity. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 149 ⁋9 The insolence of benefaction terminates not in negative rudeness or obliquities of insult. I am often told in express terms of the miseries from which charity has snatched me. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. iv. 134 The obliquities of Eastern negotiation wore out the temper of Lally.
†5. Gram. Case-inflexion, declension. Obs.
1668Wilkins Real Char. iv. vi. 446 'Tis capable of that kind of Obliquity by prefixing Prepositions, which is commonly stiled variation by Cases. |