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单词 obliquation
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obliquationn.

Brit. /ˌɒblᵻˈkweɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɑbləˈkweɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: late Middle English obliquacioun, 1500s–1600s 1800s– obliquation.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin obliquation-, obliquatio.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin obliquation-, obliquatio action or effect of slanting (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), strabismus (1363 in Chauliac) < classical Latin oblīquāt- , past participial stem of oblīquāre oblique v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare obliquate adj.
Now historical.
Bending aside or in an oblique direction; movement away from a straight line, position, or course; an instance of this.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > inclination to one side or skewness
obliquation?a1425
skewiness1862
skewness1894
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 127v Causez of obliquitee somtyme ar outward, as assiduitee & custome, i. vse, of biholding to þat partie to which is made þe obliquacioun [?c1425 Paris wryenge aside; L. obliquatio].
?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) ii. sig. D There was nothing within a hundred mile of me doon on any side, (for from so far but no further the ayre may come because of obliquation).
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 366 That some such obliquation of Religion hath hap'ned.
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 149 The right and transverse fibres are decussated, by the oblique fibres; and so must frame a Reticulate and Quincunciall Figure by their Obliquations.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 109 Obliquations or crooked ways.
1756–7 T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. III. 276 The dark spot in the middle of the rings increased also by that obliquation of the eye.
1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis xi. 271 I..passed through the crowd..with a gradual obliquation of my body [L. obliquato corpore].
1955 Isis 46 70/2 What is called in the translation of the Almagest ‘obliquity’ and ‘slanting’ respectively is now ‘inclination’..and ‘obliquation’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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