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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.
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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
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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 Francis Bacon 1593
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