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- adjective Obsolete form of
chaotic .
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Examples
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The revolution harpies of France, sprung from night and hell, or from that chaotick anarchy, which generates equivocally
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'Those translators who, for want of understanding the characteristical difference of tongues, have formed a chaotick dialect of heterogeneous phrases;' 'In one part refinement will be subtilised beyond exactness, and evidence dilated in another beyond perspicuity.'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The northern declivities of all these mountains were covered with snow banks, or chaotick masses of snow and rock intermingled, which had fallen from the summits.
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It is placed in some distant part of space, separated from the regions of harmony and order by a chaotick waste and an unoccupied vacuity; but sin and death worked up "a mole of aggravated soil," cemented with
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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