OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 19487

heteroclite

/ˈhɛtəɹəʊklaɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
heteróclito
Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.
Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crew-men I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship […]
he was, on the contrary, as mercurial and sublimated a composition, […] as heteroclite a creature in all his declensions; […] with as much life and whim, and gaité de cœur about hi…
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