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eclectick

eclectick is the obsolete form of eclectic.

Meaning of eclectic

Adjective

eclectic (comparative more eclectic, superlative most eclectic)

  1. Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
    • Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship. […] It is an eclectic religion: it seeks to select what is good from all religions, and it has become the latest...1893, John Robson, Hinduism and its Relations to Christianity, pages 211, 214
  2. Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
    • All members of the Hominoidea, apes and man, show an eclectic taste in food but select, from a wide range of possibilities, only a few to provide the bulk of their diet.1983, Peter J. Wilson, Man, the Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution, page 140
    Synonyms:
    heterogeneous

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Forms of eclectick

Adjective
comparativemore eclectick
superlativemost eclectick
Noun
pluraleclecticks

Questions about eclectick

What is eclectick the obsolete form of?
Eclectick is the obsolete form of eclectic.

Words near eclectick in the dictionary

  1. eclecticists
  2. eclecticize
  3. eclecticized
  4. eclecticizes
  5. eclecticizing
  6. eclectick
  7. eclecticks
  8. eclectics
  9. eclection
  10. eclections
  11. eclectism

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