adv. and a. Astron. Obs. [a. OF. phrase en belif: see BELEF.]

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  A.  adv. In an oblique direction, obliquely.

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c. 1391.  Chaucer, Astrol., II. § 28. These same signes … ben cleped tortuos signes or kroked signes for they arisen embelif on oure Orisonte.

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  B.  adj. Oblique.

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c. 1391.  Chaucer, Astrol., II. § 28. heading, To knowe the assencions of signes in the embelif cercle in euery regioun, I Mene, in circulo obliquo. Ibid. The embelif orisonte … ouerkervyth the equinoxial in embelif angles.

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1413.  Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, V. i. (1859), 70. I saw the spyeres tornen … eueriche within other, by contrarious mouyng, and by embelif.

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  Hence † Embelif v. Obs. intr., to be oblique.

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1413.  Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, V. i. (1859), 70. There was a Cercle embelyfyng som what.

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