Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Oblique.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
oblique .
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Examples
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The 24th Virginia quickly obliqued into the woods on their left with little further loss, but the North Carolinians had to recross the field under fire.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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The 24th Virginia quickly obliqued into the woods on their left with little further loss, but the North Carolinians had to recross the field under fire.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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The 24th Virginia quickly obliqued into the woods on their left with little further loss, but the North Carolinians had to recross the field under fire.
Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971
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The 24th Virginia quickly obliqued into the woods on their left with little further loss, but the North Carolinians had to recross the field under fire.
Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971
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The 24th Virginia quickly obliqued into the woods on their left with little further loss, but the North Carolinians had to recross the field under fire.
Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971
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The lawyers and henchmen obliqued off to the sides.
Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963
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Kenesaw; Thomas the centre, obliqued to the right, deploying below
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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The road over which I had passed was in the form of a semi-circle, and to escape I obliqued across the fields to a point I had gone over an hour or two before, where it crossed Sailor's Creek.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore
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The lawyers and henchmen obliqued off to the sides.
Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934
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Johnston had obliqued too much and passed to Gordon's left, getting in rear of the enemy.
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