ANOMALISTIC; ANOMALISTICAL

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2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


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Irregular; departing from common or established rules.

2.
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Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. Anomalistic month. See under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.