a. and sb. rare. [ad. mod.L. type *trājectil-is: see TRAJECT and -IL. As a botanical term a. F. trajectile (Littré).]

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  A.  adj. Capable of throwing or impelling across.

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1838.  I. Taylor, Home Educ., 247. A trajectile force, leaping the voids of the universe.

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1860.  Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea (Low), ii. § 119. Arising from this difference in the rate of rotation and the trajectile force [of a cannon].

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  b.  Bot. (See quot.)

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1900.  Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms, Trajectile … when the connective completely separates the anther-cells.

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  B.  sb. A body impelled through air or space. (Cf. projectile.)

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1860.  Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea (Low), ii. § 123. It [a current] should also move in a circle of trajection, or such as would be described by a trajectile moving through the air without resistance and for a great distance.

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