ex-centric

Each particular organ gives him an individual impression, which is ex-centric, often highly ex-centric, to the general impression.

The Free Press Hilaire Belloc 1911

And there went with it a mass of ex-centric stuff.

The Free Press Hilaire Belloc 1911

At first they pressed Coburg to consent to the deviation of the British force towards Dunkirk; and only on his urgent protest was that ex-centric move given up until Valenciennes should have fallen.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

For while Carnot trusted to concentration, the Allies either sank into inertia, or made ex-centric movements which ultimately played into their opponents 'hands.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

The true and primary object of the French was to consolidate their communications; nor, with Bonaparte in the influential position he then occupied, was any such ex-centric movement likely.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

Serious reverses soon followed, and the fatally ex-centric position of the corps in Naples was then immediately apparent.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

This distant and ex-centric extension of the arms of the Republic bespoke Bonaparte's confidence in the solidity of his situation in the South of Europe; for under previous circumstances, even after his victorious campaign of 1796, he had always deprecated an occupation of Naples, and relied upon threats and a display of force to insure the quiescence of that state.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

In this will be noticed the recurrence of ideas familiar to him in the Riviera eight years before; the expectation of ex-centric operations into which Bonaparte was rarely betrayed.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

They dared not, unless by folly, or because first attacked, prolong their already too extended ex-centric movement into Lower Italy.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

The erroneous military conception which colored much of his thought, the propositions for ex-centric movements in an enemy's rear, by bodies comparatively small, out of supporting distance from the rest of the army, and resting upon no impregnable base, contributed greatly to the faulty anticipations entertained and expressed by him from time to time.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897