ˌmalˌconforˈmation
[See mal-.]
Bad or faulty conformation.
| 1776 T. Percival Ess. III. 282 The disease is neither owing to inflammation, nor to any mal-conformation of the parts. 1851 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 136 The inherent malconformation of the Carlovingian Empire. 1858 De Quincey Language Wks. IX. 91 A sentence..is capable of multiform beauty, and liable to a whole nosology of malconformations. 1871 Darwin Desc. Man I. i. 9 Is man subject to similar malconformations? |