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exemplification, illustration, case infraction, breach, violation,
in point, quotation the rule. etc., of law or rule, eccentricity,
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( Phrases ) The order of the day; aberration, irregularity, uneven-
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the common or ordinary run of ness, variety, singularity, oddity,
things ( see 23); matter of course; oddness, exemption, salvo.
“ familiar matter of to-day.” Exception, nondescript, a char -
( Verbs ). To conform to rule, acter, nonesuch, monster, mon-

be regular, to bo orthodox, etc., strosity, prodigy (872), hunt#
to follow, observe, go by, bend naturoB, rara avis, freak, curiosity,
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to, obey rules, to be guided or queer fish, half caste, half - breed,
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regulated by, be wont, etc. (613), cross breed, 7nitis, mongrel, hy -
to chime in with, to be in har - brid, mule, mulatto (41), tertium

mony with, follow suit; to quid, hermaphrodite, sport.
standardise, naturalise. Phcenix, chimera, hydra,

( Phrases).Hurler avec les letups; sphinx, minotaur, grillin, centaur,
to do in Rome as the Romans do; hippocentaur, hippogritf, trag -
to swim with the stream. elaph, kraken, dragon, sea -

To exemplify, illustrate, cite, serpent, mermaid, unicorn, etc.
quote, put a case, produce an { Phrases). Out of one s ele -
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instance, etc., to set an example. ment; a fish out of water ; neither

( Phrase ) To keep one in coun - one nor another; neither fish,
tenance. * flesh, nor fowl, nor good red

( Adjectives ) Conformable to herring; a law to oneself.
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rule, regular, uniform, constant, ( Verbs). To be unconformable
steady, according to rule, selon to rule, to be exceptional; to

les rlgles, de rlgle, en rbjle, de stretch a point.
rigueur, normal, well regulated, ( Phrases). To have no business
formal, canonical, orthodox, con - there; to beggar description.
ventional, strict, rigid, positive, ( Adjectives). Unconformable,
uncompromising, see 23. exceptional, abnormal, anomal-

Orduiary, natural, usual, com - ous, anomalistic, out of order, out

mon, wonted, accustomed, habit - of place misplaced, irregular, un-
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ual, household, average, every - even, arbitrary, informal, aber-

day, current, rife, prevailing, rant, stray, peculiar, exclusive,
prevalent, established, received, unnatural, eccentric, unconven -
acknowledged, typical, accep ted, tional, Bohemian.

recognised, representative, hack - Unusual, unaccustomed, un -
neyed, well - known, familiar, wonted, uncommon, rare, singu-

vernacular, commonplace, trite, lar, unique, curious, odd, extra-
banal, cut and dried, naturalised, ordinary, strange, outri, out of
orderly, stereotyped, cliche. the way, egregious, out of the

Exemplary, illustrative, in ordinary, unheard of, queer,
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point, of daily or every day quaint, old-fashioned, nondes-
occurrence, in the order of things. cript, undescribed, unexampled,

( Phrases ). Regular us clock - sui generis, unprecedented, un-
work ; being in the order of the
day. paralleled, unfamiliar, fantastic,
new-
fangled,
grotesque, bizarre,
( Adverbs ). Conformably * by weird, eerie, outlandish, exotic,
rule, regularly, etc., agreeably to. preternatural, unexampled, un -