adiaphorous

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  1. Indifferent; neutral; morally neither right nor wrong. Why does the Church of Rome charge upon others the shame of novelty for leaving of some rites and ceremonies which by her own practice we are taught to have no obligation in them, but to be adiaphorous? Jer. Taylor, Liberty of Prophesying, § 5.
  2. Hence Applied by Boyle to a spirit neither acid nor alkaline.
  3. In medicine, doing neither good nor harm, as a medicament.

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  1. from Greek ἀδιάφορος, not different, indifferent, from ἀ- privative + διάφορος, different, from διαφέρειν (= Latin differe, later English differ), from διά = Latin dis-, apart, + φέρειν = Latin ferre = English bear.
 

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