eccentricate

Definitions

To move to the periphery; to marginalize.

transitive

Examples

“Gray owes much to scowering, as does Virgil to wire-drawn epithets; whilst Milton cramps with hard words and eccentricates by transposition,”

“[...] have⟳, by the intrigues of an ignorant, presumptuous, speculating faction, been absorbed in the vortex of the great continental power; have⟳ been eccentricated from their former orbit, and must now perform⟳ their future [...]”

“All the fire-bars are movable; they are supported at their outer ends on a transverse shaft, called "the eccentricated shaft," a shaft formed of a series of cranks or eccentrics [...] The motion of the eccentricated shaft is derived from a cone-pulley of three speeds.”

“It was, he asserted, simply asking too much of human credibility to deny⟳ that all these identical equantized, and eccentricated, and perfectly phased epicycles did not have⟳ a common origin - either in the motion of the earth around the sun or the sun around the earth.”

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