[L., f. clīnā-re to incline, found in pa. pple. clīnātus: cf. DECLINE.] An inclination, bias.
1704. Swift, T. Tub, ix. 106. The round and the square would, by certain clinamina, unite.
1823. De Quincey, Let. Young Man, Wks. XIII. 85. An insensible clinamen (to borrow a Lucretian word) prepares the way for it.
1827. Hare, Guesses (1859), 226. No old word, which, with a slight clinamen given to its meaning, will answer the purpose.
