eccentricate

present singular third person eccentricates · participle present eccentricating · participle past eccentricated · past eccentricated

1. transitiveTo move to the periphery; to marginalize.

   Gray owes much to scowering, as does Virgil to wire-drawn epithets; whilst Milton cramps with hard words and eccentricates by transposition,

   1783, John Young, A Criticism on the Elegy, or 1789, Robert Potter, The Art of Criticism

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   [...] have, by the intrigues of an ignorant, presumptuous, speculating faction, been absorbed in the vortex of the great continental power; have been eccentricated from their former orbit, and must now perform their future [...]

   1803, Thomas Pownall, Memorial addressed to the Sovereigns of Europe and the Atlantic

   All the fire-bars are movable; they are supported at their outer ends on a transverse shaft, called "the eccentricated shaft," a shaft formed of a series of cranks or eccentrics [...] The motion of the eccentricated shaft is derived from a cone-pulley of three speeds.

   1891, Daniel Kinnear Clark, The Steam Engine, page 339

   It was, he asserted, simply asking too much of human credibility to deny that all these identical equantized, and eccentricated, and perfectly phased epicycles did not have a common origin - either in the motion of the earth around the sun or the sun around the earth.

   1989, Julian B. Barbour, Absolute Or Relative Motion?, volume 1, page 300