Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bringing into line; a method of determining the position of a remote and not easily discernible object, by running an imaginary line through more easily recognizable intermediate objects, as the passing of a straight line through the pointers of the Great Bear to the pole-star.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
allineation .
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- noun Alternative form of
allineation .
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Examples
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This baker should take the alineation classes from older posts.
Amused Am I Jen 2009
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The old man left the prison, much affected and deeply pained for the condition in which he found him, he in fact feared mental alineation.
The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion. 1845
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