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English
Etymology
From Middle English embelif (“oblique (adj.); obliquely (adv.)”) (compare Middle English embelink), from Old French en belif / beslif, related to Latin ob-līquus.
Adjective
embelif (not comparable)
- (heraldry, postpositive) Oblique.
1910, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Har to Ita, page 320:Robert Dene of Sussex (14th century) bore "Gules a quarter azure 'embelif,' or aslant, and thereon a sleeved arm and hand of silver."
2009, Thomas Daniel Tremlett, Hugh Stanford London, Rolls of Arms, Henry III., page 132:The trick […] might be meant for a lion passant or for one rampant embelif […]
Further reading
- Robert E. Lewis, Middle English Dictionary: E. 1 (1952), page 74: "embelif adj. Cp. abelif. embelief adv. Cp. abelif. (b) her. (divided) diagonally; 'per bend' or 'per bend sinister'. embelink adj. Cp. embelif. Her. Diagonal, 'bendwise'."
- Francis Henry Stratmann, Henry Bradley, A Middle-English Dictionary (1891), page 193: "embelif, adv. & adj., O.Fr. en belief; obliquely; oblique"; page 49: "belef, in phr. O.Fr. à belif, beslif, from med. Lat. bis-liquus; obliquely; a belef GAW. 2486, 2518; see embelif."