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

deviating
deviation
deviation ratio
deviation to the left
deviation to the right
deviational nystagmus
deviationism
deviationisms
deviationist
deviationists
deviations
deviative
deviator
deviatoric
deviators
deviatory (current term)
device
device approval
device characteristic
device driver
deviceful
devicefully
devices
devictimize
devictimized
devictimizes
devictimizing
devide
devil
devil's advocate

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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