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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who deals in marvels; a marvel-monger.
  • noun One versed in teratology.

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  • noun teratology A scientist specialising in teratology.

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Examples

  • And he was what you'd call a teratologist: he looked at all of the monstrosities and mutations to find rules and laws, rather than looking at the norms.

    Greg Lynn on calculus in architecture Greg Lynn 2005

  • And he was what you'd call a teratologist: he looked at all of the monstrosities and mutations to find rules and laws, rather than looking at the norms.

    Greg Lynn on calculus in architecture Greg Lynn 2005

  • And he was what you'd call a teratologist: he looked at all of the monstrosities and mutations to find rules and laws, rather than looking at the norms.

    Greg Lynn on calculus in architecture Greg Lynn 2005

  • I got my contributor copy of Phantom, which also includes stories by various future-of-horror types like teratologist and readingthedark and Mike Cisco.

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • Thanks to teratologist, the greatest sentence I've read all day

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • [233] I do not present this view as more than a picture which helps us to realize the actual phenomena which we witness in homosexuality, although I may add that so able a teratologist as Dr. J.W. Ballantyne considers that

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

  • Taruffi, the celebrated Italian teratologist, in speaking of the subject, says:

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The concerns, which came to light after the thalidomide scandal, led to the drug being extensively studied, said Dr. Tina Chambers, a teratologist at the University of California,

    Toronto Sun 2009

  • teratologist: "I understand you have a job to do, but get a better job where you don't have to invade people's privacy!"

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

  • teratologist: Ok, so with a crack team of five people and google, they talked this girl into calling the poor census taker back and complaining about it being "invasive".

    Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

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