homogeneal

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /hɒmə(ʊ)ˈdʒiːnɪəl/

Adjective[edit]

homogeneal (comparative more homogeneal, superlative most homogeneal)

  1. (now rare) Homogeneous.
    • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
      To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportionall), this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetick, and makes up the best harmony in a Church [...].
    • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 68:
      It is observed by those that are more attentive watchers of the works of Nature, that the fœtus is framed out of some homogeneal liquor or moisture, in which there is no variety of parts of Matter to be contrived into bones and flesh […] .
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