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单词 anormal
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anormaladj.

Brit. /ˌeɪˈnɔːml/, /əˈnɔːml/, U.S. /ˌeɪˈnɔrm(ə)l/, /əˈnɔrm(ə)l/
Forms: 1500s anormale, 1500s 1800s– anormal.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Probably also partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anormal; Latin anormalis.
Etymology: Originally (in sense 1) < Middle French anormal (French anormal ) (1236 in Old French) < post-classical Latin anormalis (12th cent.; also anormalus (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources)), probably < a- a- prefix6 + classical Latin normālis normal adj., influenced by association with anomalus (see anomal adj.), although it has also been taken to be a variant of anomalus , by association with classical Latin normālis . In later use probably directly < post-classical Latin anormalis, although apprehended as if < classical Latin ā- , variant (before -n- ) of ab- ab- prefix + norma ; compare abnormal adj.
1. Of a verb: irregular. Obsolete.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. cxli/1 Ie suis, one of ye..verbes anormals, whose coniugatyng I haue at length set out in the seconde boke.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement ii. f. l Note also that amongest suche verbes as of their owne nature be verye meanes, I fynde none that be anormale saue onely Ie men uas.
2. Abnormal; irregular, unusual, idiosyncratic.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective]
enorm?1518
enormousa1533
enormious1604
exorbitant1607
erratical1646
wanton1743
anormal1812
abnormal1817
freak-storm1898
1812 J. Evans Beauties Eng. & Wales XVII. 603 He..afterwards pleaded, without any notice having been taken of the anormal obtrusion.
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 476/1 Duméril and Bibron..consider the chameleons and the geckos as two groups absolutely anormal.
1850 Nat. Encycl. IX. 161 Upon a form so anormal [the ornithorhyncus] conjecture was busy.
1951 Ess. & Stud. 4 127 The collocations [of Swinburne] are unique and personal, that is to say, a-normal.
1998 J. Clark Mod. Asian Art viii. 185/1 Whether artistic individuality is defined in terms of lack of adhesion to social conventions or of an anormal individual psychology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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