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‖ sui generis|ˈs(j)uːaɪ ˈdʒɛnərɪs|
[L.]
lit. Of one's or its own kind; peculiar. Also used attrib. † Also illiterately as n., a thing apart, an isolated specimen.
1787M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1888) I. 268 The Doctor..thinks it must be a sui generis of that class of animals. 1794Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 126 Against the existence of the sparry [fluor], as of an acid sui generis, many difficulties were started. 1828J. P. Smith Four Disc. (1842) 63 The transcendent case before us is absolutely sui generis. 1854Poultry Chron. II. 324 The history of this show is ‘sui generis’. 1870Newman Gram. Assent ii. vi. 197 Certitude is united to a sentiment sui generis in which it lives and is manifested. 1944S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha's Rebellion in Backlands ii. 60 Such a climate tends to create a sui generis pathology throughout the whole of the northern coastal strip. 1963J. Lyons Structural Semantics i. 2 In this theory meaning is defined as a sui generis ‘reciprocal relation between name and sense, which enables them to call up one another’. 1977Time 4 Apr. 41/3 The superlative interpretations by the sui generis Budapest Quartet come from tapes of live performances at the Library of Congress in 1959 and 1961. |