That makes the in-color onlooker the heteroclite, and the urbane aesthetic cellist the metroclite. From Wordnik.com. [Heteroclite.] Reference
These instances might with propriety be reckoned among singular or heteroclite instances, for in the whole extent of nature they are of rare and extraordinary occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [The New Organon] Reference
Nor could I have dreamed the heteroclite crewmen I had met aboard Tzadkiel's ship, nor the jibers; and yet both had come from Briah, even as I; and Tzadkiel had not scrupled to take them into his service. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
Over the years Amis has learned how to notate a superbly comic speaking voice; getting it down on paper is comparable to a good composer's skill in scoring heteroclite sounds never before made by concert instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Amis's 'The Pregnant Widow' Is A 'Strange, Sparkling Novel' (New York Review)] Reference
But even where he walked, amid a society intellectually fostering sentiment, in a land bowing to see the simplicity of the mystery paraded, Alvan's behaviour was passing heteroclite. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
YOUR have here a kind of medley, a heterogeneous, ill-spelt, heteroclite, (worse) excentric sort of a-- a--; in short, it is a true Negroe calibash -- of ill-sorted, undigested chaotic matter. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, Vol. 2] Reference
On the other hand, the heteroclite array of the dancers of the night before, torn from their slumbers, appeared in fantastic and ridiculous outline like the shades of a magic lantern; shawls, rugs, and even bed-quilts wrapped around them. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin On The Alps] Reference
"Indeed, besides what we know of the influences and the results of heteroclite fecundations, we know positively to-day that a forced and long-sustained change, both in the habits and mode of life of animals, and in the situation, soil, and climate of plants, brings about, after a sufficient time has elapsed, a very remarkable change in the individuals which are exposed to them. From Wordnik.com. [Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work] Reference
Surveyed him in his garb heteroclite. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
It's a completely heteroclite performance. From Wordnik.com. [Good Trip] Reference
All, heteroclite Dan except. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference
187, II, a, N. plēbēs, heteroclite, 59, 2, d). plēbi, gen. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
Yorick’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seemed not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis; in nine hundred years, it might possibly have all run out: — I will not philosophize one moment with you about it; for happen how it would, the fact was this: — That instead of that cold phlegm and exact regularity of sense and humours, you would have looked for, in one so extracted; — 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 gaite de coeur about him, as the kindliest climate could have engendered and put together. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
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