strange

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Such mingled music is strange--strange as life.

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  1. adjective Not previously known; unfamiliar.
  2. adjective Out of the ordinary; unusual or striking.
  3. adjective Differing from the normal.
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  • Lawyer Pell trailed them Doc Savage did a strange thing before he followed the other three--strange, that is, to any one knowing the bronze man well. —  039 - The Seven Agate Devils
  • He spoke about the liquidation of democracy and explained the strange term as a Greek word meaning "mob rule." —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 03 - March 2000
  • That last review makes it sound as if it was difficult to watch or follow this movie - strange, as that really isn´t the case. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Walking with God from day to day, shall he fail to be taught of God Growth in grace is sometimes described as a strange, mystical, and unintelligible process. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
  • 'It is midnight--strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin--then came the messenger!' —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852
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  1. Middle English, from Old French estrange, extraordinary, foreign, from Latin extrāneus, adventitious, foreign, from extrā, outside, from feminine ablative of exter, outward; see eghs in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern F. straunge; from Middle English strange, straunge, estrange, from Old French estrange, estrenge, estraigne, estreigne, etc., French étrange = Italian strano, strange, foreign, from Latin extraneus, that is without, external, from extra, without, on the outside: see extraneous, extra-.
  2. from strange, adjective
 

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