deviatory

adj

deviatory

adj

Etymology From deviate + -ory.

1

Tending to deviate.

And I do not question but to satisfie your Scruples, and remove your Prejudices about the Deviatory Motion of the Atoms, the Bigness of the Sun, and the reasonableness of the Improvements made by Epicurus upon Democritus.1702, Samuel Parker, Tully's Five Books de Finibus:

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