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- adjective Obsolete form of
eccentric . - noun Obsolete form of
eccentric .
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Examples
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Iconoclasts in the Time of the Byzantine Emperor, Leo the IIIrd, and more recently, Followers of Zwingli & Calvin, not to mention those eccentrick and peaceful Souls belonging to such Sects as the so-call'd Friends, or Quakers, have rent Christianity, some more violently than others, with Controversy about the Need to resort to Images & Statues to inspire the rightful Worship of God.
"A 'Virtuous vanilla' lip balm and a 'Get Tight with Christ' hand and body cream, featuring a picture of Christ flanked by two adoring women." Ann Althouse 2008
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He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, a woman of the town, who, with some eccentrick talents and much effrontery, forced herself upon his acquaintance.
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He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint [333], a woman of the town, who, with some eccentrick talents and much effrontery, forced herself upon his acquaintance.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, a woman of the town, who, with some eccentrick talents and much effrontery, forced herself upon his acquaintance.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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Next to argument, his delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentrick violence of wit.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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As by the cultivation of various sciences, a language is amplified, it will be more furnished with words deflected from their original sense; the geometrician will talk of a "courtier's zenith, or the eccentrick virtue of a wild hero;" and the physician of "sanguine expectations and phlegmatick delays."
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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What were her claims to this eccentrick tenderness, by which the laws of nature were violated to retain her, curiosity will inquire; but how shall it be gratified?
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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But a character of an eccentrick virtue is the more exact image of human life, because he is not wholly exempted from its frailties; such a person is Almanzor, whom I present, with all humility, to the patronage of your royal highness.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 John Dryden 1665
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Hemispheares, for according to that hypothesis, the motion of her eccentrick, doth turne her face towards us, as much as the other doth from us.
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643
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