repandous
Bent outwards.
Adjective
- Bent outwards.
- though they be drawn repandous, or convexedly crooked in one piece, yet the Dolphin that carrieth Arion is concavously inverted, and hath its spine depressed in another. - 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica,...
Origin
Etymology tree English repand Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English repandous From repand + -ous.