outbentadj.
/ˈaʊtbɛnt/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌbɛnt/ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > desiring liberation
outbent1601
1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. xvii. f. 85, in Wks. Which had no powre to hold in mindes, out bent.
2. Bent outwards.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex
swellingc1000
gibbousc1400
round?1523
convex?a1560
convexed1578
bias1609
out-bowed1613
outbent1625
full1627
outbowing1657
gibbose1682
rounded1712
bulging1812
pot-bellied1814
balloony1861
bombed1872
bombous1878
1625 W. Lisle tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Noe in tr. Part of Du Bartas 151 It is concave and convex, which is as much as to say inbent and out-bent.
1874 Philos. Trans. 1873 (Royal Soc.) 163 140 That out-bent part of the trabeculae, the apical part which joins the ‘investing mass’, is still present.
1882 W. K. Parker in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 iii. 167 The base..is attached to the most outbent part of the trabecula.
1944 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 8 44 Globular, red vase..with slightly outbent rim.
1986 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 73 126/1 The formerly outbent vasculature of the secondary teeth would be juxtaposed radially against the primary trace.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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