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Webster 1913 Edition


Deviatory

De′vi-a-to-ry

,
Adj.
Tending to deviate; devious;
as,
deviatory
motion
.
[R.]
Tully.

Definition 2024


deviatory

deviatory

English

Adjective

deviatory (comparative more deviatory, superlative most deviatory)

  1. Tending to deviate.
    • Tully's Five Books de Finibus
      And I do not question but to satisfie your Scruples, and remove your Prejudices about the Deviatory Motion of the Atoms, the Bigness of the Sun, and the reasonableness of the Improvements made by Epicurus upon Democritus.