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centrical, a.|ˈsɛntrɪkəl|
[f. as centric a. + -al1.]
1. Situated at or in the centre or middle; central; = centric 1.
1741Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 42 In the Centrical Part of the optic Nerve. 1768Whitefield Let. Gov. Wright 27 The late addition of the two Floridas renders Georgia more centrical. 1803Wellington Let. in Gurw. Disp. II. 208 To leave the infantry in a centrical situation. 1864Guthrie in Gd. Words 510 Situated in a centrical part of the town.
fig.a1659Osborn Ess. iii. (1673) 566 It is not unlikely to have been the Primary and Centrical Sin.
2. Of or pertaining to a centre.
1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. II. vi. ii. §2. 30 A certain extension of the centrical medium. 1876F. Brodie in G. Chambers Astron. 325 The second centrical envelope [of the comet] just embraced both these eccentric envelopes. |
