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Eccentric

means deviating from the centre; hence irregular, not according to rule. Originally applied to those planets which wander round the earth, like comets, the earth not being in the centre of their orbit. (Latin, ex centrum.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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