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atypical, a.|æ-, eɪˈtɪpɪkəl| [f. a- 14 + typical a.] Not typical; not conformable to the ordinary type. Hence atypiˈcality, the quality of not being typical; aˈtypically adv., in an atypical manner.
1885C. H. Fagge Princ. Med. I. 100 Carcinomata can be..distinguished from other epithelial growths by their being ‘atypical’. 1916Times 25 Oct. 7/3 The cases up to this time were mostly mild and atypical. 1917C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanalytic Method i. xi. 292, I have also found the serpent atypically as allusion to the pretendedly poisonous tongue of the wife. 1918Sat. Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 11/1 She,..something atypically for a woman, appears to be more interested in places than people. 1935Proc. Prehistoric Soc. I. 152 The stations in Crimea and Transcaucasia..have yielded exclusively rather atypical flake implements. 1957Archivum Linguisticum IX. 83 The atypicality of -o in feminines. 1959B. Wootton Soc. Sci. & Soc. Path. v. 161 Criminologists have interested themselves more in the heavy incidence of crime upon the young than in the relatively atypical late entrants. 1964S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xiv. 143 Three atypically large viruses of ophthalmic interest. |