embelif

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adjective

Oblique.

OriginMiddle English embelif ← Old French en belif ← Latin ob-līquus →
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Meanings

adjectiveembelif (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepostpositionalgovernmentOblique.

    The trick […] might be meant for a lion passant or for one rampant embelif […]

    2009, Thomas Daniel Tremlett, Hugh Stanford London, Rolls of Arms, Henry III., page 132
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    Robert Dene of Sussex (14th century) bore "Gules a quarter azure 'embelif,' or aslant, and thereon a sleeved arm and hand of silver."

    1910, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Har to Ita, page 320

Origin

  1. Latinob-līquus
  2. Old Frenchen belif
  3. Middle Englishembelif“oblique (adj.); obliquely (adv.)”
  4. Englishembelif

From Middle English embelif (“oblique (adj.); obliquely (adv.)”) (compare Middle English embelink), from Old French en belif / beslif, related to Latin ob-līquus.

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APA

embelif. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embelif

MLA

“embelif.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embelif. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “embelif,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embelif.

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