Definition of "eccentrical" []

• Eccentric (adjective)

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• "Following the same train of thinking, I have been led to imagine that the few extraordinary women who have rushed in eccentrical directions out of the orbit prescribed to their sex, were male spirits, confined by mistake in female frames."
• "But when the orbits become very eccentrical, we must consider this force as momentarily affecting a comet's velocity, diminishing it as it approaches the perihelion, and increasing it when leaving the perihelion."
• "These bodies move in planes at all possible inclinations in orbits extremely eccentrical and without any general direction -- as many moving contrary to the direction of the planets as in the opposite direction; and when we consider their great volume, and their want of mass, it appears, at first sight, that comets do present a serious objection to the theory."