sb. [CROSS a.] A bias or inclination running athwart or counter to another.
1678. Marvell, Growth Popery, Wks. 1875, IV. 357. So various were the several interests, and crossbiasses.
So Cross-bias v., to give a cross-bias to. Cross-biased ppl. a., subject to cross-biases. † Cross-biasness, tendency to go athwart or contrary, waywardness.
1633. G. Herbert, Affliction, ix. Temple, 39. Thus doth thy power crosse-bias me.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., XII. lxi. 227. Cross-biasnesse to Grace our Ruine spinn’d!
1844. Marg. Fuller, Wom. 19th C. (1862), 386. I leave Italy … hoping … to return, but fearing that may not be permitted in my ‘cross-biased’ life.
