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1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. iv. 173 Goynge cornerly or angularly signefieth cautele or subtylyte.

1555 R. Eden tr. A. Vespucci in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 246^v We..sayled frome thense lxxxx. degrees in lengthe meridionale angularly by an ouerthwart line, to thinhabitantes .l. degrees beyond the Equinoctiall.

1650 Truth's Confl. with Error Pref. sig. A2^v Look not in an oblique manner or angularly upon the persons.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 367/1 It is also used to try all sorts of Tables great or small, by Plaining them Traverse, Angularly, Cornerwise, as well as with the grain.

a1727 I. Newton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1742) 42 156 In the Time of the Observation, if the Instrument move angularly about the Axis of the Telescope, the Star will move in a Tangent of the Moon's Limb.

1765 R. Lambe Hist. Chess (new ed.) 88 The Bishops move angularly only.

1808 J. Webster Elem. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 18 If the plates be placed angularly, or touch each other at one of the ends.

1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. i. 4 A blanket, stretched angularly from the wall to the chimney.

1900 Munsey's Mag. June 307/1 Their names written angularly across the corners of the photographs.

1976 Field & Stream Sept. 72/2 A strong wind soughed through stands of fir, driving the first raindrops angularly into the forest.

2006 Independent (Nexis) 13 Sept. 12 The assembly chamber is raised high within the pyramid..and lifts rise angularly up the inside surface to a lavishly planted reception area.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. iii. sig. D3^v A Labyrinthæan face, now angularly, now circularly, euery way aspected. View more context for this quotation

1669 R. Boyle Certain Physiol. Ess. (ed. 2) ii. 83 Another part of the same Solution..afforded us an Ice angularly figur'd.

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 169 A peece of Timber growing angularly, or crooked.

1727 R. Greene Princ. Philos. Expansive & Contractive Forces iii. x. 428 By the Angularly Arch'd ones [sc. speaking trumpets] the Voice is said to be Stopt.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 467 A crystaline substance..angularly arranged.

1843 Prize-ess. & Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 14 705 The quartz of the greywacke is never angular,..while the slate..occurs generally in angularly shaped fragments.

1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 54 Angularly bent, so as to consist of a vertical and horizontal limb.

1949 H. Aronson tr. D.-H. Kahnweiler Rise of Cubism iii. 7 These forms are drawn angularly, not roundly modeled in chiaroscuro.

1994 J. Lord Six Exceptional Women 181 The configuration of the water's edge could be strikingly different according to the varied action of the surf, one day flat, the next angularly humped.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxv. 136 Gashford..was..angularly made.

1846 E. A. Poe in Godey's Lady's Bk. May 199/1 He is about five feet seven inches high..angularly proportioned.

1860 M. H. Schoolcraft Black Gauntlet xix. 524 She was a very tall, angularly-boned, square-shaped woman, perhaps forty years of age.

1915 P. D. Bell His Harvest xii. 128 At the extreme edge of the group stood a tall angularly built man staring through large, tortoise shell rimmed glasses.

1990 Orange County (Calif.) Register 29 Oct. 1/1 The soft-spoken, angularly framed Naval Academy graduate.

2008 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 Aug. 15 Two writers—both Canadian, one gamine, the other angularly handsome.