Eccentricate

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To move to the periphery; to marginalize. transitive

    "Gray owes much to scowering, as does Virgil to wire-drawn epithets; whilst Milton cramps with hard words and eccentricates by transposition,"

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"Gray owes much to scowering, as does Virgil to wire-drawn epithets; whilst Milton cramps with hard words and eccentricates by transposition,"

Etymology

From eccentric + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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