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adjective 
  1. Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.
  • 1759: he was, on the contrary, as mercurial and sublimated a composition,
Etymology: From mediaeval Latin ethroclitus and late Latin heteroclitus, from Greek á, from á- + "lean, incline".


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