inclinatoryadj.
/ɪnˈklʌɪnət(ə)ri/, /ɪŋˈklʌɪnət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ᵻnˈklaɪnəˌtɔri/, /ɪŋˈklaɪnəˌtɔri/ Now rare.
1. inclinatory needle: = dipping-needle n. Now historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > bit of magnetized steel as direction indicator
needlea1393
mariner's needle1600
directory needle1613
inclinatory needle1613
dipping-needle1667
dip-needle1881
1613 M. Ridley Short Treat. Magneticall Bodies To Rdr. sig. A3v To haue the Inclinatory-needle truly placed in his ring.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. iii. 46 The Magneticall Inclinatory needle, in euery eleuation of the Pole is..disposed to the Axell of the Earth.
1770 J. A. Mallet Let. 13 Apr. in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) (1771) 60 366 He got an inclinatory needle constructed at Basle.
1843 LitTEST Gaz. 28 Oct. 701/3 The action upon the inclinatory needle is a revolutive one, not only upon its axis, but upon its axis of motion.
1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 89 527 The members of the old Bond committee got together and made a report to the King advising him to make a grant of £30 for inclinatory needles.
2. Of, relating to, or characterized by deviation from a vertical or horizontal position or direction; that causes deviation of this type.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [adjective] > relating to inclination of divining wand
inclinatory1623
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > magnetic devices or materials > [adjective] > of needle: characterized by inclination
inclinatory1623
1623 E. Gunter De Sectore & Radio iii. 91 For the distinguishing of these Planes we may finde whether they be horizontall, or verticall, or inclining to the horizon..either by the vsuall inclinatorie quadrant, or by fitting a thread and plummet vnto the Sector.
a1691 R. Boyle Unsucceed. Exper. in Wks. (1772) I. 343 In some men's hands it will not at all succeed, some hidden property in him that uses the [divining] wand being able, as they say, to overpower and hinder its inclinatory virtue.
1745 Short Way to know World (new ed.) i. 4 An inclinatory Motion of its Poles towards the Sun.
1795 H. Hunter tr. L. Euler Lett. to German Princess II. lx. 259 Were we to travel, with such a needle, toward the northern magnetic pole of the earth, the inclinatory power would increase.
1832 United Service Jrnl. July iii. 192 It nowhere appears that they were aware of their [sc. magnets'] directive and inclinatory faculties.
1954 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 4 Feb. 26/7 The minute inclinatory movement of the leaning tower [of Pisa] is continuing at the same rate as 20 years ago.
2015 K. J. Whitmer Halle Orphanage Sci. Community v. 99 Eberhard's theory actually grew out of his interest in Edmund Halley's hollow-earth theory. Yet Eberhard made it his own in order to use the copious inclinatory observations that he and Noël had collected.
Derivatives
incliˈnatorily adv. rare
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [adverb] > in dipping manner (of needle)
inclinatorily1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. ii. 60 If an iron or steele..be held perpendicularly or inclinatorily unto the needle, the lower end thereof will attract the cuspis or southerne point. View more context for this quotation
1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. I Inclinatorily, Obliquely, with inclination to one side or the other.
1932 U.S. Patent 2,031,402 2/2 In a slat house: a frame: inclinatorily disposed rafters on the frame; spaced grooved slats on the rafters thus forming an inclined roof plane.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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