adj. (colloquial).—Indirect; a SLANT (q.v.). Also as adv.
1844. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Attaché, xxviii. Pony got mad … and … sent the Elder right slap over his head SLANTENDICULARLY, on the broad of his back into the river.
1872. DE MORGAN, A Budget of Paradoxes, 289. He must put himself [in the Calendar] under the first saint with a SLANTENDICULAR reference to the other.
