† rectiline, a. Obs.
[ad. late L. rectilīneus (Boeth.), f. rectus straight + līnea line: see rect a. and line n.2 Cf. F. rectiligne (14th c. in Littré).]
= rectilinear.
| 1570 Billingsley Euclid i. ix. 19 To deuide a rectiline angle geuen, into two equall partes. Ibid. vi. def. i. 153 Like rectiline figures are such, whose angles are equall [etc.]. 1660 Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. (1701) 382/1 The most simple of all rectiline figures. |