heterogeneal, a. and n. Now rare.
(ˌhɛtərəˈdʒiːniːəl)
Also 7 erron. -ial(l.
[f. Scholastic L. heterogene-us (f. Gr. ἑτερογενής, ἑτερογενε-: see heterogene) + -al1.]
A. adj. = heterogeneous.
| 1605 Timme Quersit. i. xi. 48 Separated from the others, which are heterogeniall, or of another kinde. 1631 E. Jorden Nat. Bathes ii. (1669) 9 Such water as is free from any heterogeneal mixture. 1660 R. Coke Power & Subj. 108 A Parliament is a politick body, compounded of heterogenial or dissimilar parts, viz. the King, the Lords, spiritual and temporal, in one distinct house, and of a house of Commons another distinct house. 1674 S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 5 Numbers Heterogeneal are mixt Numbers of Whole and Broken, Abstract and Contract. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn., Heterogeneal Nouns in Grammar, are such as have one Gender in the Singular..and another in the Plural. Ibid., Heterogeneal Surds, are such as have different Radical Signs: As √2aa: and √bb . 1805 E. Dayes Wks. 299 An heterogeneal color, orange, for instance.. viewed through a prism, will disappear, being resolved into the two homogeneal colors..red and yellow. 1861 Tulloch Eng. Purit. ii. 304 A system which admitted of such tyrannical action..was a heterogeneal thing. |
B. n. A heterogeneous person or substance.
| 1651 N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. iii. (1739) 16 By congregating Homogeneals, and severing Heterogeneals. a 1655 Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 260 Whether this mixture of heterogeneals do not pollute the ordinances. |
Hence heteroˈgenealness, heterogeneity.