Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Heterogeneous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Heterogeneous.
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- adjective Archaic form of
heterogeneous .
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Examples
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We have a faint recollection of a class of gentlemen who used to attach an heterogeneal collection of massive seals and keys to one end of a chain, and a small church-clock to the other.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various
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I impute not only to the heat and air of those hot countries I have eat my bread in, but to the quality and difference of food: you will say that hair is but an excrementitious thing, and makes not to this purpose; moreover, methinks I hear thee say that this may be true only in the blood and spirits, or such fluid parts, not in the solid and heterogeneal parts.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I Various 1885
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As it doth separate those who are heterogeneal, so likewise it will congregate and embody those who are homogeneal.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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And next they cause the parts of _homogeneal fluid_ bodies readily to _adhere_ together and _mix_, and of _heterogeneal_, to be exceeding _averse_ thereunto.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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The words _della mia prospettiva_ may therefore indicate that the diagram to the preceding chapter treating on a heterogeneal subject is to be excluded.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485
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The words _della mia prospettiva_ may therefore indicate that the diagram to the preceding chapter treating on a heterogeneal subject is to be excluded.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485
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Similar Parts] Containing parts, by reason of their more solid substance, are either homogeneal or heterogeneal, similar or dissimilar; so Aristotle divides them, lib. 1, cap. 1, de Hist.
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The last time I heard him hold forth was as an apologist for the tumultuary loyalists at the Mansion House Meeting, when he delivered himself in a manner so heterogeneal of commonsense, and so completely in a style of egotism, as to excite the ridicule and risibility of the whole house, and discompose the gravity of even the speaker himself. "{
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