rectilineous

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English

Adjective

rectilineous (comparative more rectilineous, superlative most rectilineous)

  1. Obsolete form of rectilinear.
    • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. , London: Samuel Smith, , →OCLC:
      there are only three rectilineous and ordinate figures , which can serve to this purpose ; and inordinate , or unlike ones , must have been not only less elegant and beautiful , but unequal

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