idiosyncratic, a.
(ˌɪdɪəʊsɪnˈkrætɪk)
[f. prec., after Gr. συγκρᾱτικός: see -ic.]
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, idiosyncrasy; due to individual disposition or susceptibility.
| a 1779 Warburton Div. Legat. ii. App. (1846) I. 315 His Lordship's idiosyncratic terrors, the terrors of a future State. 1870 Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. f. (1873) 172 An idiosyncratic use of words. 1886 Symonds Renaiss. Italy, Cath. React. (1898) VII. xiii. 227 Our true critic renounces idiosyncratic whims and partialities. 1893 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Sept. 555 The action—idiosyncratic or otherwise—of the above-named drug. |
So idiosynˈcratical a. = prec.; hence idiosynˈcratically adv., by inherent peculiarity of constitution.
| 1650 Charleton Paradoxes Prol. 16 The confederate vertue of the Unguent..idiosyncratically opposed to the essentiall hostility of that Acid. 1670 Maynwaring Vita Sana vi. 70 The various natures..and idosyncratical [sic] properties of several bodies. 1863 Lytton Caxtoniana I. 72 The man inveterately, idiosyncratically shy. 1893 Patmore Religio Poetæ (1898) 40 Those of idiosyncratical enthusiasm. |