obliquate

transitive verb

-ed/-ing/-s

obsolete

: to turn or bend aside or to one side

obliquation noun

plural -s

obsolete

Word History

Etymology

Latin obliquatus, past participle of obliquare to bend aside, turn aside, from obliquus oblique

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