Both Uses of
heterogeneous
in
Moby Dick
- Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and anomalously modified by things altogether alien and heterogeneous.†
Chpt 16-18
- Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad's language, heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases.†
Chpt 16-18 *
Definition:
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(heterogeneous) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind