Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
heteroclite .
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- adjective obsolete
Anomalous ,heteroclite .
Etymologies
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From heteroclite + -ical.
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Examples
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He brags, moreover, that he was primus medicorum, and did more famous cures than all the physicians in Europe besides, [4166] a drop of his preparations should go farther than a dram, or ounce of theirs, those loathsome and fulsome filthy potions, heteroclitical pills (so he calls them), horse medicines, ad quoram aspectum Cyclops Polyphemus exhorresceret.
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Tho 'no Solitaire, I am irreversibly resolved to be on this occasion heteroclitical.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry
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Tho 'no Solitaire, I am irreversibly resolved to be on this occasion heteroclitical.
Life and Remains of John Clare Cherry, J L 1872
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