Definitions for: Obliquity


[n] the quality of being deceptive
[n] the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle



Webster (1913) Definition: Ob*liq"ui*ty, n.; pl. Obliquities. [L. obliquitas:
cf. F. obliquit['e].]
1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right
line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the
amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of
the ecliptic to the equator.

2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation
from moral rectitude.

To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity.
--South.

Synonyms: asynclitism, deceptiveness

See Also: abnormal condition, abnormalcy, abnormality, childbed, confinement, dishonesty, labor, labour, lying-in, meretriciousness, parturiency, speciousness, travail

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