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eccentricate

eccentricate verb: to move to the periphery; to marginalize.

Verb

eccentricate (third-person singular simple present eccentricates, present participle eccentricating, simple past and past participle eccentricated)

  1. (transitive) To move to the periphery; to marginalize.
    • Gray owes much to scowering, as does Virgil to wire-drawn epithets; whilst Milton cramps with hard words and eccentricates by transposition,1783, John Young, A Criticism on the Elegy, or 1789, Robert Potter, The Art of Criticism
    • [...] have, by the intrigues of an ignorant, presumptuous, speculating faction, been absorbed in the vortex of the great continental power; have been eccentricated from their former orbit, and must now perform their future [...]1803, Thomas Pownall, Memorial addressed to the Sovereigns of Europe and the Atlantic

Forms of eccentricate

third-person singular presenteccentricates
present participleeccentricating
past participleeccentricated
pasteccentricated

Origin of eccentricate

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

Questions about eccentricate

What does eccentricate mean?
Eccentricate means to move to the periphery; to marginalize.
What part of speech is eccentricate?
Eccentricate is a verb.
What is the past tense of eccentricate?
The past tense of eccentricate is eccentricated.

Words near eccentricate in the dictionary

  1. eccentric hypertrophies
  2. eccentric hypertrophy
  3. eccentric kangaroo unicycle
  4. eccentrical
  5. eccentrically
  6. eccentricate
  7. eccentricates
  8. eccentricities
  9. eccentricity
  10. eccentrick
  11. eccentricks

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