a. Also quâqua-, quâ-quâ-versal. [f. late L. quāquāversus, -versum, f. quāquā where-, whithersoever + versus towards.] Turned or pointing in every direction; chiefly Geol. in phr. quaquaversal dip (see quot. 1877).
1728. Nicholls, in Phil. Trans., XXXV. 442. The quaquaversal Pressure of the Blood will be controll’d by the Pressure on the Artery.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 394. The slope and quâquâ-versal dip of the beds.
1862. R. G. Latham, Elem. Comp. Philol., 126. The affinities of the Lap are one-sided, those of the Turk (to borrow an expression from the geologists) quaquaversal.
1877. A. H. Green, Phys. Geol., ix. § 3. 347. If the beds dip away in all directions from a centre they are said to have a quaquaversal dip.
Hence Quaquaversally adv.
1875. R. F. Burton, Ultima Thule, I. 38. The strata all incline gradually and quaquaversally … towards the centre of the island.
1883. Burton & Cameron, Gold Coast, I. iii. 76. A central boss … with lines radiating quaquaversally.
