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anachoric

anachoric adjective: not in the proper or natural place; foreign.

Adjective

anachoric (not comparable)

  1. Not in the proper or natural place; foreign.
    • Csernyei's experiments indicate that chronic periapical inflammations have an anachoric effect on micro-organisms and that organisms do not remain in the blood but take refuge in the area of inflammation.1940, Charles Goodliffe Darlington, George W. Wilson, The Year Book of Dentistry, page 5
    • To rephrase and extend the foregoing discussion, I venture to say that an acceptable archaeological explanation (conceived of as a structured rendering of relevant "facts", "laws" and conditions) is anachronic and anachoric in relation to its object, and only valid in conjunction with the current...1978, C. C. Bakels, Analecta praehistorica Leidensia - Volumes 11-12, →ISBN, page 38

Questions about anachoric

What does anachoric mean?
Anachoric means not in the proper or natural place; foreign.
What part of speech is anachoric?
Anachoric is an adjective.

Words near anachoric in the dictionary

  1. anachoret
  2. anachorete
  3. anachoretes
  4. anachoretic
  5. anachorets
  6. anachoric
  7. anachorism
  8. anachorisms
  9. anachorite
  10. anachorites
  11. anachronic

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