[f. Gr. λοξό-ς oblique + δρόμ-ος course.] = Loxodromic line.
1880. Libr. Univ. Knowl. (N. Y.), X. 436. The loxodrome, or loxodromic line.
1888. Greenhill, Integral Calculus, 31. A loxodrome on the sphere, cutting the meridians at a constant angle.