Meaning of eccentricate | Babel Free

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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