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HOMOGENEOUS

Volume 8 · 47 words · 1797 Edition

or HOMOGENEAL (composed of the Greek ὁμός like, and γένεσις kind), is a term applied to various subjects, to denote, that they consist of similar parts, or of parts of the same nature and kind: in contradistinction to heterogeneous, where the parts are of different natures, &c.