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  • noun Plural form of heteroclite.

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  • It is true I find a number of books of fabulous experiments and secrets, and frivolous impostures for pleasure and strangeness; but a substantial and severe collection of the heteroclites or irregulars of Nature, well examined and described, I find not, specially not with due rejection of fables and popular errors.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • The N.T. and the Apostolic Fathers afford other instances of heteroclites, which do not occur in the LXX.

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

  • It is true I find a number of books of fabulous experiments and secrets, and frivolous impostures for pleasure and strangeness; but a substantial and severe collection of the heteroclites or irregulars of Nature, well examined and described, I find not, specially not with due rejection of fables and popular errors.

    The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

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