double-oblique

Adjective

double-oblique (not comparable)

1. Combining or including two oblique angles.
   • In certain other molluscan muscles, however, Marceau (1908) observed double-oblique striations which could not be ascribed to the presence of spirally wound, homogeneous fibrils.1958, J Bowden, “The Structure and Innervation of Lamellibranch Muscle”, in International Review of Cytology, volume 7, page 319
   • In double oblique angulations, the first rotation is chosen about the vertical image axis and the second about the (new) horizontal axis.2007, Maximilian F Reiser, Wolfhard Semmler, Hedvig Hricak, Magnetic Resonance Tomography, page 1451
2. (rare) Aligning the agent and object in nonergative tenses but aligning the subject and object in ergative tenses.
   • Even less common is the double-oblique type, found in certain Pamir languages (Payne 1980), Kashmiri and Pashto (Bubenik 1989b).1998, Vit Bubenik, A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan, page 224
   • The historical origin of the double-oblique system can be easily reconstructed: the transitive past with its characteristic double-oblique form as shown in (53) was originally ergative, with an oblique A and an absolutive O.2002, N.E. Collinge, An Encyclopedia of Language