eccentricate

== English == === Etymology === From eccentric +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). === Verb === eccentricate (third-person singular simple present eccentricates, present participle eccentricating, simple past and past participle eccentricated) (transitive) To move to the periphery; to marginalize. 1783, John Young, A Criticism on the Elegy, or 1789, Robert Potter, The Art of Criticism: Gray owes much to scowering, as does Virgil to wire-drawn epithets; whilst Milton cramps with hard words and eccentricates by transposition, ==== Related terms ==== eccentric