[f. as prec. + -ICAL.]
† 1. a. = ECCENTRIC A. 1. Also fig. b. Pertaining to an eccentric orbit. Obs.
1640. Wilkins, New Planet, X. (1707), 262. Supposing the Earth to move in an Eccentrical Orb about the Sun.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., i. (1851), 98. With a kinde of eccentricall equation.
1646. W. Dell, Right Reformation, Ed. Ded. Whose … interest is different and excentricall from the power, welfare, and interest of the Kingdome.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, iv. 62. Why in the knotts of Deal or Firre the Circles are often eccentrical.
1669. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 208. For want of some pregnant Principles … they [Physicians] … are mostwhat eccentrical to the truth.
2. Out of the regular track; exceptional, irregular.
a. 1652. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., IX. ix. (1859), 445. An all-seeing eye … governs the most eccentrical motions of creatures.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb. (1704), III. xv. 490. There were … many illegal and eccentrical Proceedings.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., II. 3. There is allowed in those cases an extrajudicial or eccentrical kind of remedy.
1827. Pollok, Course T., II. Vanity to be Renowned for creed eccentrical.
1845. Petrie, Round Towers Irel., 29. Tops either pointed, or truncated at the summit, and ornamented with something eccentrical.
