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A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard. J. S. Mill.

e; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical. Deviations from the normal type. Hallam.

The quality, state, or fact of being normal; as, the point of normalcy. [R.]

Reduction to a standard or normal state.

In a normal manner. Darwin.

Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest. Norman style (Arch.), a style of architecture which arose in the tenth century, characterized by great massiveness, simplicity, and strength, with the use of the semicircular arch, heavy round columns, and a great variety of o…

A Norman idiom; a custom or expression peculiar to the Normans. M. Arnold.

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. Darwin.

In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.

Not according to rule; abnormal. [Obs.]

That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.

Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.

Abnormal; irregular. Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

Union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.

n be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.