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Definition of Deviatory
1. a. Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion.
Definition of Deviatory
1. Adjective. Tending to deviate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deviatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deviatory
Literary usage of Deviatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Judicial Evidence by Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1825)
"To believe every thing discovered is a great mistake: it is to take the horizon
for the limits of the world. CHAPTER VII. EXAMPLES OF deviatory FACTS, ..."
2. Modern Meteorology: An Outline of the Growth and Present Condition of Some by Frank Waldo (1893)
"The first of these is the deviatory effect of the earth's rotation which is best
shown by a numerical example. The well-known expression for this force is 2 ..."
3. Richard Wagner and the Music of the Future: History and Aesthetics by Francis Hueffer (1874)
"We have now to return to a period of Schubert's life, greatly anterior to the
events anticipated in our deviatory remarks. ..."
4. Man's Supreme Inheritance: Conscious Guidance and Control in Relation to by Frederick Matthias Alexander (1918)
"... will be more readily and perfectly performed if the head remains erect without
any deviatory posture. Every voice-user should learn to open the mouth ..."
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