lusus

• Instead of feeling that my bookish taste was something to be valued, I looked upon myself as a lusus naturć whom Nature had cruelly formed to suffer from an abnormal constitution, and lamented that somehow I never could be like other boys The maladroitness described by my father, of which I was fully conscious, added to the feeling of my unfitness for the world around me. —  The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
• But the permanent effect of a solitary bias in the youth of genius, impelling the whole current of his after-life, is strikingly displayed in the remarkable character of Archdeacon BLACKBURNE, the author of the famous "Confessional," and the curious "Memoirs of Hollis," written with such a republican fierceness I had long considered the character of our archdeacon as a lusus politicus et theologicus_. —  Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
• Why, then, does Ireland identify itself with the one race, and discard the other as "foreign foes Because the Partholanians represent the first human race, but the Fomoroh or 'Water-men' were unhuman, and a kind of lusus naturae. —  The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
• Even Cecil Charnock was born too late to be one of the young ladies who, in the first decades of the reformed Parliament, used to look on a Liberal as a lusus naturae, whom they hardly believed to be a gentleman. —  The Three Brides
• Producitur somnus, producitur mensa, produncuntur confabulationes, lusus, nugae nugarum; solius supremae Magestratis, cultus summa qua potest celeritate deproperatur (Kugler, De Spiritu Eccles_. —  The Divine Office

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