[Formed as prec. + -Y. Cf. F. loxodromie.] A loxodromic line or course; also = loxodromics.
a. 1656. Ussher, Ann. (1658), 98. Anaximander … first observed the Loxodromie, or biassing motions of the stars, in the Zodiac.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Loxodromy, such a Course in Sailing.
1712. Desaguliers, trans. Ozanam’s Geog., 114. A Ship which … sails along any Oblique Rumb … describes upon the Terraqueous Globe a Spiral Line, which we have call’d a Loxodromick Line, Loxodromy, or Oblique Course.
1855. Ogilvie, Suppl., Loxodromy, a loxodromic curve or spiral; loxodromics.
