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Definition of Idiosyncrasies
1. idiosyncrasy [n] - See also: idiosyncrasy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idiosyncrasies
Literary usage of Idiosyncrasies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diet in health and disease by Julius Friedenwald (1913)
"idiosyncrasies. In considering food-poisoning, the existence of food idiosyncrasies
... It is, however, undoubtedly true that food idiosyncrasies do exist, ..."
2. Lectures on Homeopathic Philosophy by James Tyler Kent (1900)
"idiosyncrasies. § 117 The study of the idiosyncrasies is very closely related
... In the old school idiosyncrasies relate to certain patients who are known ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"The mental traits of races and peoples are as much their peculiar characteristics
as are their bodily idiosyncrasies, and are just as impossible to change ..."
4. A Practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia): Its Symptoms by George Miller Beard (1880)
"Special idiosyncrasies in Regard to Food, Medicine, and External Irritants.—When
the nervous system becomes exhausted, it is apt to develop various ..."
5. Practical dietetics by William Gilman Thompson (1905)
"idiosyncrasies IN REGARD TO FOOD idiosyncrasies are found to exist with some ...
Among the commoner idiosyncrasies of diet are the revolt of the system ..."
6. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Food idiosyncrasies.—The old adage that "one man's meat is another man's poison,"
relates to food idiosyncrasies. Meat, particularly veal, oysters, fish, ..."
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