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adj. - Spread throughout a body or system; Not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment.

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  • In such a work the library shewn requires what I may term generalised fittings.
  • So the extent to which the lessons drawn can be generalised is probably more limited than we sometimes argue.
  • You mistake correcting your original assertions with some kind of generalised defence of everything Fisk ever wrote.
  • Case in point, with a concentration on the old 'generalised' guard of classifications,
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