diagonial
English
Adjective
diagonial (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of diagonal.
- (obsolete) diametrically opposed
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book:
- Sin […] is […] in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for diagonial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- gadolinia