heterogeneousadj.

/hɛtərəˈdʒiːniːəs/

Etymology: < Scholastic Latin heterogeneus (see heterogeneal adj. and n.) + -ous suffix.

The opposite of homogeneous.The earlier word, and the more usual, esp. in technical expressions, till c1725, was heterogeneal.

a. Of one body in respect of another, or of various bodies in respect of each other: diverse in kind or nature, of completely different characters; incongruous; foreign.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective]

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

1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 243 The question..is heterrogeneous to this disputation.

1660 T. Gouge Christian Direct. (1831) ii. 21 Labour..to drive out all wandering heterogeneous thoughts that come to disturb thee.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 25 Chusing two heterogeneous fluids, such as Water and Oyl.

1699 Ld. Tarbut in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 195 Though it be heterogeneous from this subject.

1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 35 Its heat proceeds from a mixture of heterogeneous Bodies.

1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 112 Which is perfectly heterogeneous to the true Management of the Hop.

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 199 Things utterly heterogeneous can have no intercommunion.

1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans 58 The National Church is absolutely heterogeneous to the Apostolical or Anglo-Catholic party of 1833.

1862 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism 16 Pain is always heterogeneous with pleasure.

1866 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. (1875) ii. 44 A large collection of heterogeneous writings.

1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. viii. 180 We do not suppose that the two worlds, visible and invisible, are absolutely different and hetergeneous in fundamental structure.

b. loosely. Extraordinary, anomalous, abnormal.

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from rule or standard > anomalous

anomalc1525

heteroclital1593

heteroclite1598

anomalous1606

heteroclitic1632

anomalar1635

heteroclitous1648

extravagant1650

extraordinary1703

heterogeneous1760

heterogenous1760

rogue1952

1760 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (ed. 2) II. cccxvii. 359 I am afraid I shall carry but a very heterogenous Dress along with me.

1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull I. 58 Men of fashion are strange heterogeneous monsters.

1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions V. 242 Lady Belvoir and her two daughters are actual characters, however heterogeneous some people may think them.

2. Of a body in respect of its elements: composed of diverse elements or constituents; consisting of parts of different kinds; not homogeneous.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous

difform1525

maslin1590

several1590

heterogeneana1601

miscellane1603

heterogeneal1605

miscellaneous1615

heterogeneous1629

miscellany1629

miscellanean1632

miscellaneal1633

stromatic1656

sundry1678

heterogenous1695

sorted1697

well-assorted1757

various1772

misc.1806

variegated1815

olla-podrida-ish1827

unhomogeneousa1830

olla-podridical1830

heterologous1834

non-homogeneous1853

cut-and-paste1864

assorted1897

sorty1899

inhomogeneous1904

1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 99 The members of a hæterogenious body..are discrepant and various in themselues.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xix. 261 The armie will be very heterogeneous, patched up of different people.

1649 A. Ross Life Mahomet in tr. Alcoran 405 He..found at his doore an Heterogeneous Beast, called Elborach, half Asse, half Mule, but much swifter then either.

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 20 Thus from a Mixture of all Kinds began, That Het'rogeneous Thing, An Englishman.

1796 H. Brougham in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 245 All sorts of light..simple and homogeneous, or heterogeneous and compounded.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. iv. 44 This heterogeneous mass of wild and desperate men.

1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxi. 52 Good is of a character exceedingly diversified and heterogeneous.

1867 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies IV. vii. 419 In so vast and heterogeneous an Empire as the Persian.

3. Mathematics.

a. Of different kinds, so as to be incommensurable.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > describing relationships between quantities > incommensurable

incommensurable?a1560

heterogeneous1656

incommensuratea1687

1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons i. 4 in Elements Philos. Of these two sorts of Angles the Quantities are Heterogeneous.

1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements v. 104 Heterogeneous quantities are not compared together.

1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Heterogeneous Quantities..are those which cannot have proportion, or be compared together as to greater and less..As lines, surfaces, and solids in geometry.

b. Of different dimensions or degrees; non-homogeneous. heterogeneous surds n. (see quot.1796); (the later nomenclature is that of like and unlike surds).

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > irrational

surd1557

irrationality1570

irrationala1690

heterogeneous1728

transcendence1902

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Heterogeneous Surds, are such as have different radical Signs.

1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Heterogeneous Surds, are such as have different radical signs; as √a and 3√b²; or 5√10 and 7√20.

a. In various connections: heterogeneous attraction, attraction between atoms different in kind, chemical attraction; also that between the different kinds of electricity and magnetism. heterogeneous bodies, ‘such as have their parts of unequal density’ (Hutton Math. Dict. 1796). heterogeneous nouns, nouns of different genders in the singular and plural. heterogeneous numbers, ‘mixed numbers consisting of integers and fractions’ (Hutton). heterogeneous reactor, a nuclear reactor in which the fuel is not uniformly mixed with the moderator and/or coolant (opp. ‘homogeneous reactor’); also heterogeneous pile. Also in various other technical usages, as heterogeneous fusion, heterogeneous radiation, heterogeneous strain, heterogeneous stream.

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the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear reactor > [adjective] > employing uniform mixture > not

heterogeneous1947

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Heterogeneous Bodies are such, whose Gravities are not proportionable to their Bulks.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Heterogeneous Nouns, in Grammar, are such as have one Gender in the Singular Number, and another in the Plural... Heterogeneous Numbers, are those referr'd to different Units, or Integers.

1826–34 Good's Bk. Nat. (ed. 3) I. 93 The heterogeneous attraction, or that between the two different substances, is stronger than the common force of gravity.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 693/1 Heterogeneous strain.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 567/2 In the case of crystalline fusion it is necessary to distinguish two cases, the Homogeneous and the Heterogeneous... In the second case, the solid and liquid phases differ in composition; that of the liquid phase changes continuously, and the temperature does not remain constant during the fusion.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 257/1 The nuclear divisions are what Weismann calls ‘differentiating’ or heterogeneous divisions. In them the microcosms of the germ-plasm are not doubled, but slowly disintegrated.

1922 W. B. Scott Physiogr. vi. 154 Heterogeneous streams are those which have two or more different kinds of courses, and most rivers, including almost all the longer ones, are of this class.

1947 C. Goodman Sci. & Engin. Nucl. Power I. ix. 320 (caption) Heterogeneous reactor with circulating liquid fuel.

1949 M. L. Oliphant Atomic Age 23 The arrangement used is a so-called ‘heterogeneous pile’, consisting of some tens of tons of uranium rods or slugs disposed in a calculated ‘lattice’ throughout a mass of some hundreds of tons of graphite.

1958 O. R. Frisch Nucl. Handbk. xii. 2 By far the largest number of reactors built to date have been thermal, heterogeneous reactors.

1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. (ed. 3) 984/2 Heterogeneous radiation, that having particles of various energies and/or wavelengths.

b. Denoting the presence of more than one phase (solid, liquid, or gas) in a system or process.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > many-sided or having parts > having many phases or myriad

myriad1817

myriadfold1874

heterogeneous1878

1878 J. W. Gibbs in Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts & Sci. III. 108 (heading) On the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances.

1895 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 68 ii. 72 (heading) Graphical representation of heterogeneous systems.

1928 J. K. Roberts Heat & Thermodynamics xviii. 356 Heterogeneous reactions in which solids and vapours take part.

1950 Sci. News 15 65 Much research had been carried out on heterogeneous catalysts, that is, catalysts at whose surfaces reactions between gases are brought about.

Derivatives

heteroˈgeneously adv. in a heterogeneous manner.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adverb] > heterogeneously or unevenly

unevenly1398

oddly1597

mosaically1637

multipliciously1646

ununiformly1656

unsteadily1690

heterogeneously1775

unequably1834

spottily1842

patchily1891

inhomogeneously1909

1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 231 The rooms are very heterogeneously filled.

1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel vii. 435 Unauthentic tradition is wont to connect things heterogeneously.

heteroˈgeneousness n. the quality or condition of being heterogeneous; heterogeneity.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun]

manifoldnesseOE

serenessa1300

diversityc1340

sundernessc1390

diversenessa1400

seretya1400

variancea1400

sundryhead?a1425

sundrinessa1450

variety1548

multivariety1601

diversifying1611

inconstancy1646

heterogeneity1651

variousness1651

heterogeneousness1662

variegation1668

multifariousness1684

miscellaneousness1727

miscellaneity1778

versatility1802

omnifariousness1806

motleyness1819

many-headedness1847

heterology1854

unhomogeneity1862

diversitude1870

variedness1897

polycentricity1915

inhomogeneity1916

1662 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica (new ed.) 129 in Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) The Heterogeneousness of the Exposition of the First Day's Creation.

1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare V. 225 Dissimilitude of stile and heterogeneousness of sentiment, may sufficiently show that a work does not really belong to the reputed authour.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 105 The heterogeneousness of two fluids.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	heterogeneous
释义	heterogeneousadj. /hɛtərəˈdʒiːniːəs/ Etymology: < Scholastic Latin heterogeneus (see heterogeneal adj. and n.) + -ous suffix. The opposite of homogeneous.The earlier word, and the more usual, esp. in technical expressions, till c1725, was heterogeneal. 1. a. Of one body in respect of another, or of various bodies in respect of each other: diverse in kind or nature, of completely different characters; incongruous; foreign. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] 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 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 243 The question..is heterrogeneous to this disputation. 1660 T. Gouge Christian Direct. (1831) ii. 21 Labour..to drive out all wandering heterogeneous thoughts that come to disturb thee. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 25 Chusing two heterogeneous fluids, such as Water and Oyl. 1699 Ld. Tarbut in Pepys' Diary (1879) VI. 195 Though it be heterogeneous from this subject. 1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 35 Its heat proceeds from a mixture of heterogeneous Bodies. 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 112 Which is perfectly heterogeneous to the true Management of the Hop. 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 199 Things utterly heterogeneous can have no intercommunion. 1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans 58 The National Church is absolutely heterogeneous to the Apostolical or Anglo-Catholic party of 1833. 1862 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism 16 Pain is always heterogeneous with pleasure. 1866 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. (1875) ii. 44 A large collection of heterogeneous writings. 1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. viii. 180 We do not suppose that the two worlds, visible and invisible, are absolutely different and hetergeneous in fundamental structure. b. loosely. Extraordinary, anomalous, abnormal. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from rule or standard > anomalous anomalc1525 heteroclital1593 heteroclite1598 anomalous1606 heteroclitic1632 anomalar1635 heteroclitous1648 extravagant1650 extraordinary1703 heterogeneous1760 heterogenous1760 rogue1952 1760 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (ed. 2) II. cccxvii. 359 I am afraid I shall carry but a very heterogenous Dress along with me. 1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull I. 58 Men of fashion are strange heterogeneous monsters. 1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions V. 242 Lady Belvoir and her two daughters are actual characters, however heterogeneous some people may think them. 2. Of a body in respect of its elements: composed of diverse elements or constituents; consisting of parts of different kinds; not homogeneous. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous difform1525 maslin1590 several1590 heterogeneana1601 miscellane1603 heterogeneal1605 miscellaneous1615 heterogeneous1629 miscellany1629 miscellanean1632 miscellaneal1633 stromatic1656 sundry1678 heterogenous1695 sorted1697 well-assorted1757 various1772 misc.1806 variegated1815 olla-podrida-ish1827 unhomogeneousa1830 olla-podridical1830 heterologous1834 non-homogeneous1853 cut-and-paste1864 assorted1897 sorty1899 inhomogeneous1904 1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 99 The members of a hæterogenious body..are discrepant and various in themselues. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xix. 261 The armie will be very heterogeneous, patched up of different people. 1649 A. Ross Life Mahomet in tr. Alcoran 405 He..found at his doore an Heterogeneous Beast, called Elborach, half Asse, half Mule, but much swifter then either. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 20 Thus from a Mixture of all Kinds began, That Het'rogeneous Thing, An Englishman. 1796 H. Brougham in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 245 All sorts of light..simple and homogeneous, or heterogeneous and compounded. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. iv. 44 This heterogeneous mass of wild and desperate men. View more context for this quotation 1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxi. 52 Good is of a character exceedingly diversified and heterogeneous. 1867 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies IV. vii. 419 In so vast and heterogeneous an Empire as the Persian. 3. Mathematics. a. Of different kinds, so as to be incommensurable. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > describing relationships between quantities > incommensurable incommensurable?a1560 heterogeneous1656 incommensuratea1687 1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons i. 4 in Elements Philos. Of these two sorts of Angles the Quantities are Heterogeneous. 1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements v. 104 Heterogeneous quantities are not compared together. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Heterogeneous Quantities..are those which cannot have proportion, or be compared together as to greater and less..As lines, surfaces, and solids in geometry. b. Of different dimensions or degrees; non-homogeneous. heterogeneous surds n. (see quot.1796); (the later nomenclature is that of like and unlike surds). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > particular qualities > irrational surd1557 irrationality1570 irrationala1690 heterogeneous1728 transcendence1902 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Heterogeneous Surds, are such as have different radical Signs. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Heterogeneous Surds, are such as have different radical signs; as √a and 3√b²; or 5√10 and 7√20. 4. a. In various connections: heterogeneous attraction, attraction between atoms different in kind, chemical attraction; also that between the different kinds of electricity and magnetism. heterogeneous bodies, ‘such as have their parts of unequal density’ (Hutton Math. Dict. 1796). heterogeneous nouns, nouns of different genders in the singular and plural. heterogeneous numbers, ‘mixed numbers consisting of integers and fractions’ (Hutton). heterogeneous reactor, a nuclear reactor in which the fuel is not uniformly mixed with the moderator and/or coolant (opp. ‘homogeneous reactor’); also heterogeneous pile. Also in various other technical usages, as heterogeneous fusion, heterogeneous radiation, heterogeneous strain, heterogeneous stream. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear reactor > [adjective] > employing uniform mixture > not heterogeneous1947 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Heterogeneous Bodies are such, whose Gravities are not proportionable to their Bulks. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Heterogeneous Nouns, in Grammar, are such as have one Gender in the Singular Number, and another in the Plural... Heterogeneous Numbers, are those referr'd to different Units, or Integers. 1826–34 Good's Bk. Nat. (ed. 3) I. 93 The heterogeneous attraction, or that between the two different substances, is stronger than the common force of gravity. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 693/1 Heterogeneous strain. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 567/2 In the case of crystalline fusion it is necessary to distinguish two cases, the Homogeneous and the Heterogeneous... In the second case, the solid and liquid phases differ in composition; that of the liquid phase changes continuously, and the temperature does not remain constant during the fusion. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 257/1 The nuclear divisions are what Weismann calls ‘differentiating’ or heterogeneous divisions. In them the microcosms of the germ-plasm are not doubled, but slowly disintegrated. 1922 W. B. Scott Physiogr. vi. 154 Heterogeneous streams are those which have two or more different kinds of courses, and most rivers, including almost all the longer ones, are of this class. 1947 C. Goodman Sci. & Engin. Nucl. Power I. ix. 320 (caption) Heterogeneous reactor with circulating liquid fuel. 1949 M. L. Oliphant Atomic Age 23 The arrangement used is a so-called ‘heterogeneous pile’, consisting of some tens of tons of uranium rods or slugs disposed in a calculated ‘lattice’ throughout a mass of some hundreds of tons of graphite. 1958 O. R. Frisch Nucl. Handbk. xii. 2 By far the largest number of reactors built to date have been thermal, heterogeneous reactors. 1958 Chambers's Techn. Dict. (ed. 3) 984/2 Heterogeneous radiation, that having particles of various energies and/or wavelengths. b. Denoting the presence of more than one phase (solid, liquid, or gas) in a system or process. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > many-sided or having parts > having many phases or myriad myriad1817 myriadfold1874 heterogeneous1878 1878 J. W. Gibbs in Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts & Sci. III. 108 (heading) On the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances. 1895 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 68 ii. 72 (heading) Graphical representation of heterogeneous systems. 1928 J. K. Roberts Heat & Thermodynamics xviii. 356 Heterogeneous reactions in which solids and vapours take part. 1950 Sci. News 15 65 Much research had been carried out on heterogeneous catalysts, that is, catalysts at whose surfaces reactions between gases are brought about. Derivatives heteroˈgeneously adv. in a heterogeneous manner. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adverb] > heterogeneously or unevenly unevenly1398 oddly1597 mosaically1637 multipliciously1646 ununiformly1656 unsteadily1690 heterogeneously1775 unequably1834 spottily1842 patchily1891 inhomogeneously1909 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 231 The rooms are very heterogeneously filled. 1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel vii. 435 Unauthentic tradition is wont to connect things heterogeneously. heteroˈgeneousness n. the quality or condition of being heterogeneous; heterogeneity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] manifoldnesseOE serenessa1300 diversityc1340 sundernessc1390 diversenessa1400 seretya1400 variancea1400 sundryhead?a1425 sundrinessa1450 variety1548 multivariety1601 diversifying1611 inconstancy1646 heterogeneity1651 variousness1651 heterogeneousness1662 variegation1668 multifariousness1684 miscellaneousness1727 miscellaneity1778 versatility1802 omnifariousness1806 motleyness1819 many-headedness1847 heterology1854 unhomogeneity1862 diversitude1870 variedness1897 polycentricity1915 inhomogeneity1916 1662 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica (new ed.) 129 in Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) The Heterogeneousness of the Exposition of the First Day's Creation. 1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare V. 225 Dissimilitude of stile and heterogeneousness of sentiment, may sufficiently show that a work does not really belong to the reputed authour. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. 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