Definition of "idiocrasy" []

• Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy. (noun)

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• "But no, the rebellious insect constantly made them all (for, it should have been said before, this spider seldom uses the same web more than forty-eight hours) after the same manner, and finally I laid it to a depraved idiocrasy, incident to captivity and poor health."
• "True, the full man wisely gathers, culls, absorbs; but if, engaged disproportionately in that, he slights or overlays the precious idiocrasy and special nativity and intention that he is, the man’s self, the main thing, is a failure, however wide his general cultivation."
• "We venture these deductions from the idiocrasy of the African constitution."