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deviatory

adj

Etymology

From deviate + -ory.

  1. borrowed from dēviātus
  2. suffixed as deviatory — “deviate + ory”

Definitions

  1. Tending to deviate.

    • 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.

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