Also 7 strabisme. [Anglicized form of STRABISMUS. Cf. F. strabisme.] = STRABISMUS.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Strabism … the squintness in the eyes.
1658. Phillips, Strabisme, a looking a squint.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 417. The strabisme, or squintnesse, caused, by evil conformation, custome, or disease.
1755. Johnson, Strabism, a squinting; act of looking asquint.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1824), I. xxix. 238. Hence proceeds that awkward look which is known by the name of strabism.
1807. Med. Jrnl., XVII. 526. Perfectly formed eyes have little inducement to wander into habits of strabism.
1914. Contemp. Rev., April, 507. Some Spanish critics have lately attributed the defects in his [El Greco’s] drawing to strabism and astigmatism.
