heterogeneadj.
/ˈhɛtərədʒiːn/ ? Obsolete.
= heterogeneous adj.
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othereOE
otherkinseOE
unilicheOE
elseOE
otherways?c1225
diversc1250
diverse1297
unlikea1300
likelessa1325
sundrya1325
contrariousc1340
nothera1375
strangec1380
anothera1382
otherwisea1393
diversed1393
differenta1400
differing?c1400
deparayll1413
disparable1413
disparail1413
dissemblable1413
party?a1439
unlikeningc1450
indifferent1513
distinct1523
repugnant1528
far1531
heterogene?1541
discrepant1556
mislike1570
contrary1576
distincted1577
another-gainesa1586
dispar1587
another gate1594
dislike1596
unresembling1598
heterogeneana1601
anothergates1604
heterogeneal1605
unmatched1606
disparate1608
disparent?1611
differential1618
dissimilar1621
disparated1624
dissimilary1624
heterogeneous1624
unparallel1624
otherguess1632
anotherguise1635
incongenerous1646
anotherguess1650
otherguise1653
distant1654
unresemblant1655
distantial1656
allogeneous1666
distinguished1736
otherguised1768
unsimilar1768
insimilar1801
anotherkins1855
diff1861
distinctive1867
othergate1903
unalike1934
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Cjv Therfore they be called [he] therogenes, that is to say of dyuers natures.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. F Know you the sapor pontick? sapor stipstick? Or, what is Homogene, or Heterogene ? View more context for this quotation
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 263 A strange Chimæra of Beasts and Men, Made up of pieces Heterogene.
1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Geom. i. v. 143 Homogene Figures, are of the same kind, as to the number of Sides: Heterogene the contrary.
1716 E. Baynard Health 41 From a Heterogen Medicine, The strife is Intestine.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 10 The diction, similes, and metaphors..are somewhat motley and heterogene.
1830 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) I. ix. 394 A soil and nature foreign and heterogene.
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