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单词 idiosyncratic
释义 idiosyncratic, a.|ˌɪdɪəʊsɪnˈkrætɪk|
[f. prec., after Gr. συγκρᾱτικός: see -ic.]
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, idiosyncrasy; due to individual disposition or susceptibility.
a1779Warburton Div. Legat. ii. App. (1846) I. 315 His Lordship's idiosyncratic terrors, the terrors of a future State.1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. f. (1873) 172 An idiosyncratic use of words.1886Symonds Renaiss. Italy, Cath. React. (1898) VII. xiii. 227 Our true critic renounces idiosyncratic whims and partialities.1893Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Sept. 555 The action—idiosyncratic or otherwise—of the above-named drug.
So idiosynˈcratical a. = prec.; hence idiosynˈcratically adv., by inherent peculiarity of constitution.
1650Charleton Paradoxes Prol. 16 The confederate vertue of the Unguent..idiosyncratically opposed to the essentiall hostility of that Acid.1670Maynwaring Vita Sana vi. 70 The various natures..and idosyncratical [sic] properties of several bodies.1863Lytton Caxtoniana I. 72 The man inveterately, idiosyncratically shy.1893Patmore Religio Poetæ (1898) 40 Those of idiosyncratical enthusiasm.
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