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heteroclite, a. and n.|ˈhɛtərəʊklaɪt|
[a. F. hétéroclite (16th c. in sense 2, 14th c. etroclite), a. L. heteroclit-us, a. Gr. ἑτερόκλιτος, irregularly inflected, f. ἑτερο- hetero- + -κλιτος, verbal adj. from κλίν-ειν to bend, inflect.]
A. adj.
1. Gram. Irregularly or anomalously declined or inflected: chiefly of nouns.
1656Blount Glossogr., Heteroclite, that is declined otherwise than common Nouns are. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. vii. §1 The heteroclite nouns of the Latin tongue.
2. fig. Deviating from the ordinary rule or standard; irregular, exceptional, abnormal, anomalous, eccentric. Said of persons and things. (Very common in 17th and 18th centuries; now rare.)
1598Florio, Bischizzoso ceruello, a fantasticall, heteroclite wit. 1600Hosp. Incur. Fooles 94 Heteroclite, reuerse, thwart and headstrong Fooles. 1638Featly Strict in Lyndom. i. 170 Who will not attribute more to the uniforme practise of the primitive Church, then to the heteroclyte practise of later Churches? 1688Boyle Final Causes Nat. Things iv. 194 This heteroclite animal [the bat]. a1763Shenstone Wks. & Lett. (1768) II. 225 Mortification..may be given him by fools or heteroclite characters. 1867Chambers' Encycl. IX. 265 From its peculiar characters, which led Pallas to call it Tetrao paradoxus, it has received the somewhat pedantic name of Heteroclite Grouse. 1893F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) LVII. 229/3 Nor need I dilate on the heteroclite addression, fallacion, reminiscion.
B. n. [absol. use of A.]
1. Gram. A word irregularly inflected; esp. a noun which deviates from the regular declension.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Examples of all the coniugations declyned at length through all moodes and tenses, with the Hiteroclites. 1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 97 What mean you by Heteroclits? Nouns..declined otherwise than the ordinary manner. 1760(title) Lily's Rules Construed; whereunto are added T. Robinson's Heteroclites. 1870March Ags. Gram. §100 Nouns..[that] vary in Case-endings (Heteroclites).
2. fig. A thing or person that deviates from the ordinary rule; an ‘anomaly’. (Very common in 17th c.; now rare or Obs.)
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. i. §3. 8 A substantiall and seuere Collection of the Heteroclites, or Irregulars of Nature..I find not. c1645Howell Lett. iv. xxv. (1655) I. 83 Ther are strange Heteroclites in Religion now adaies. 1767H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1792) II. xii. 189 Our Parliament would affect to be an heteroclite to all other parliaments. 1780T. Davies Life Garrick II. xl. 141 The doctor was a perfect Heteroclite, an inexplicable existence in creation.
So † heteroˈclitic(al), † heteˈroclitous adjs. = heteroclite a.
1632Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. i. iv. (ed. 4) 377 Loathsome and fulsome filthy potions, Heterocliticall pills..horse medicines. 1648Petty Adv. to Hartlib 23 Parrot-like repeating heteroclitous nouns and verbs. 1656Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnass. 449 Employing..for souldiers, those heteroclitick dispositions, who by reason of their restless natures, 'twas thought were likely to do worse. 1885Pall Mall G. 13 Jan. 5/1 Every portion of Marlowe's work is stamped with mutiny and revolt, with love for unblessed speculation and interest in heteroclitical offence. |