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The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
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Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric.
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An idioelectric substance.
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A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.
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Of or pertaining to an idiograph.
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Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.
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The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.
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An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular author.
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Dialect; a variant form of a language.
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Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase.
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Having a form of its own.
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Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock.
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Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
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Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic.