diagonial
English
Adjective
diagonial (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of diagonal.
- (obsolete) diametrically opposed
- 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
- Sin […] is […] in hostility with law past all atonement; both diagonal contraries, as much allowing one another as day and night together in one hemisphere.
References
- “diagonial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.