incurvate
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
verb
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of incurvate
1570–80; < Latin incurvātus, past participle of incurvāre. See incurve, -ate 1
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An uneasiness in a horizontal posture attends it, but no disposition to incurvate the body forward.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren
The after part of a ship's bow, before the chess-tree, or that where the planks begin to be incurvated as they approach the stem.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
His chin was so long, so peaked, and incurvated, as to form in profile, with his impending forehead, the exact resemblance of a moon in the first quarter.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Their characteristics are—bill strong, a little incurvated; toes, three before, none behind; legs long, and naked above the knees.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 by Various
In his compliments to the Shah, Saadi says,—"The incurvated back of the sky became straight with joy at thy birth."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various
After some time the last water-spout was incurvated and broke like the others, with this difference, that its disjunction was attended with a flash of lightning, but no explosion was heard.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr
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