单词 | slantindicular |
释义 | slantindicularadj.n.adv. A. adj. (and n.) a. Slanting, sloping, oblique; neither perpendicular nor horizontal. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] embelifc1400 inclining?c1400 oblique?a1425 inclinate?1440 hieldingc1480 inclined?a1500 bias1551 overthwart1594 sidelong1598 squinty1598 skew1609 traverse1609 skewed1611 obliquous1614 squint1703 inclinated1751 slanting1768 slanted1770 slant1776 aslant1791 diagonal1796 rakish1830 slantindicular1832 slantwise1856 slaunchways1913 slanty1928 α. β. 1832 Mem. of Nullifier iv. 37 This is sorter a slantindickelar road, stranger.1835 P. H. Nicklin Lett. Descr. Virginia Springs 30 [He] makes his bivouac among the trees..under a slantindicular shed.?1856 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship liv. 396 Jumping off the ground all four feet at once in a slantindicular direction.figurative.c1863 U.S. Newspaper in Bright Speeches (1868) II. 239 He walked uprightly before the world, but when he was not before the world his walk was slantindicular.1872 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 289 And he must not put himself [in the calendar] under the first saint with a slantendicular reference to the other.1840 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins ii, in New Monthly Mag. I took particular care to slew the buttons at the knees well forward in a slanting-dicular direction. 1868 Hurst Johnian Mag. Feb. 341 Put your arm quite straight at an angle of about 45° with your body, (that is in a ‘slantingdicular’ direction). b. As n., with the. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [noun] > quality of being oblique > oblique position slantindicular1843 1843 I. F. Romer Rhone II. 305 What the Doctor termed ‘the slantingdicular’ of our position obliged me to be secured in my place by a rope. B. adv. = slantindicularly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] sidelonga1398 aslanta1400 aslopec1400 embelifc1400 a-sloutc1440 sleetc1440 slant1495 obliquely1503 shoringc1503 a-swash1530 biaswise1545 biasways1556 slantingly1570 sideways1572 slantwise1573 avelinges1577 bias?1578 askant1602 slopely1605 slantinga1625 oblique1667 bias-way1702 skew1706 slantly1719 inclinably1760 slantways1828 slantindicular1831 slantindicularly1834 skewly1896 slaunchways1933 1831 Daily Louisville Public Advertiser 17 Oct. 2/3 He looked up at me slantindicler [sic], and I looked down on him slantindiclar. 1866 F. T. Buckland Curios. Nat. Hist. 3rd Ser. I. 73 They [ducks] open their web feet, come down, as the Yankees say, ‘slantindicular’. 1873 C. H. Smith Bill Arp's Peace Papers xxx. 202 If we could have slid into it quietly and slantendikular, if slavery could have sorter tapered out and freedom sorter tapered in, everybody could have got used to it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.adv.1831 |
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