arcuate
English
editEtymology
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editarcuate (comparative more arcuate, superlative most arcuate)
- curved into the shape of a bow
- arcuate stalks
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- The cause of the confusion in sounds, and the inconfusion in species visible, is, for that the sight worketh in right lines, and so there can be no coincidence in the eye; but sounds that move in oblique and arcuate lines, must needs encounter and disturb the one the other.
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editcurved into the shape of a bow
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Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editarcuate
- inflection of arcuare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editarcuate f pl
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editLatin
editVerb
editarcuāte