eccelsaistically.html - n.
Art one of the subjects of the Passion cycle: in Renaissance painting typically a depiction of Christ wearing the crown of thorns. [L, = 'behold the man', the words of Pilate to the Jews after the crowning with thorns (John 19:5)]

eccelsaistically.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 odd or capricious in behaviour or appearance; whimsical.
2 a not placed, not having its axis etc. placed centrally. b (often foll. by to) (of a circle) not concentric (to another). c (of an orbit) not circular.

--n.

1 an eccentric person.
2 Mech. an eccentric contrivance for changing rotatory into backward-and-forward motion, e.g. the cam used in an internal-combustion engine.

eccentrically adv. eccentricity n. (pl. -ies). [LL eccentricus f. Gk ekkentros f. ek out of + kentros CENTRE]

eccelsaistically.html - n.
Art one of the subjects of the Passion cycle: in Renaissance painting typically a depiction of Christ wearing the crown of thorns. [L, = 'behold the man', the words of Pilate to the Jews after the crowning with thorns (John 19:5)]

eccelsaistically.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 odd or capricious in behaviour or appearance; whimsical.
2 a not placed, not having its axis etc. placed centrally. b (often foll. by to) (of a circle) not concentric (to another). c (of an orbit) not circular.

--n.

1 an eccentric person.
2 Mech. an eccentric contrivance for changing rotatory into backward-and-forward motion, e.g. the cam used in an internal-combustion engine.

eccentrically adv. eccentricity n. (pl. -ies). [LL eccentricus f. Gk ekkentros f. ek out of + kentros CENTRE]

eccelsaistically.html - n.
a round flat cake made of pastry filled with currants etc. [Eccles in N. England]

eccelsaistically.html - abbr.
Ecclesiastes (Old Testament).